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self-sustenance

NOUN
self-sufficiency
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STRONGEST


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It is a communal means toward “a kind of self-sustenance that was an ancient wealth sounder than dollars.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Despite facing unprecedented difficulties, Kim had opened up a new era for North Korea as a powerful socialist nation prospering and developing with self-sustenance and self-reliance, Choe said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2022

The scale of the farm is small, but to the community it means clear streams and self-sustenance, and to Amazon Conservation it represents a model for other communities.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015

Considering only their economic demerits, World Bank President George Woods has estimated that 30 of the world's underdeveloped nations are at least "generations" away from anything resembling self-sustenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though she was always pale in colour and frail looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance.

From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope




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