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self-supporting



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That law requires the feds to provide the state 105 million acres, to become economically self-supporting.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

These businesses are well established and self-supporting — and provide a modest income every month.

From MarketWatch Nov. 24, 2025

He noted the athletic department is self-supporting financially and has been a trailblazer in academic support, strength training and nutrition and more recently in the name, image and likeness space.

From Seattle Times Mar. 18, 2024

But if it can solve some of these problems, the discoveries could help others learn how to live in a more self-supporting way.

From NewsForKids.net Feb. 12, 2024

Society is not a brand-new order of things supervening upon and superseding a state of nature, where the individual was entirely self-supporting.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel




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