self-sustained
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A Marine Expeditionary Unit is a self-sustained unit that operates off ships, using them as a mobile base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Despite their early contributions, notably the achievement of the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction in December 1942, the project’s center of gravity had shifted to Los Alamos.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
"It's not a self-sustained ecosystem," Mr Harward says.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2025
Washington State University researchers discovered previously unknown self-sustained oscillations in the Fischer Tropsch process.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
They hung there, seemingly self-sustained, as though watching.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
