self-supported
Example Sentences
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The microgrid can be connected to the main power utility source, but also can function while disconnected in "islanding mode," self-supported by alternate energy sources and unaffected by the issues impacting the main utility.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
Last summer, he rode the entire Tour de France route, including the hundreds of miles between stages when racers would normally be transferred by motor coach, and he did it entirely self-supported.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022
He will cycle self-supported from Texas to New York and Lisbon to Edinburgh - and says he will have a better high-vis jacket and lights this time.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2021
The fact that it’s self-supported is a big ethos of the race.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2019
The house lights went down; fiery letters stood out solid and as though self-supported in the darkness.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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