self-supporting
Example Sentences
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Our own children are successful and self-supporting, and I don’t want to add my niece’s son to the list of people we feel financially responsible for simply because his mother has made poor choices.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
To redeem the promise of abolition, Congress acted to alleviate poverty, help newly freed individuals become self-supporting citizens, and ensure access to education.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2024
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
Throughout central and northern Italy, as we have seen, the fines and confiscations rendered the Inquisition fully self-supporting, and the inquisitors were eager to make business out of which they could reap a pecuniary harvest.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
