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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

Besides, she was not sure that she was really face to face again with the bitter problem of self-sustenance.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser




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