self-sufficient

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In the long run, energy demand may shift away from Gulf oil and gas as developed countries try to become more self-sufficient.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

While brusque and self-sufficient, Tereza starts the film as the head-down, dutiful sort.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"It assumes," says Diss, "that parents will bridge the monetary gap. It fails to factor in an effective way of exiting unemployment and entering the world of work as a self-sufficient adult."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Even if the United States is self-sufficient in natural gas, these costs still take their cue from global markets.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Unlike Easter Island and other remote Polynesian islands, Greenland could not support a self-sufficient food-producing society, though it did support self-sufficient Inuit hunter-gatherer populations before, during, and after the Norse occupation period.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond