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self-reliant

[ self-ri-lahy-uhnt, self- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
Synonyms: capable, resolute, enterprising, assured, independent

First recorded in 1840–50

And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.

The workers are treated respectfully and are able to earn a self-reliant living.

The right loves to bash New York's Citi Bike system, but bike share embodies the privatized, self-reliant ideals they espouse.

To what degree are we as Americans truly self-made and self-reliant?

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.

But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.

It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.

But the terms of peace were not to the taste of the enterprising and self-reliant Huguenots of Languedoc and Guyenne.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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