dependent
adjective
relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
self-dependent
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a word derived from
dependent.
Example Sentences
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“Being neutral is not being naive. It’s actually a way of thinking that we have to be self-dependent if the war comes,” Ohlsson said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
But the horse population is difficult when you are self-dependent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
Politics isn’t a solitary exercise; yet, life underground and the years of torture left her suspicious and stubbornly self-dependent.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2016
Ashoka fellow Johannes Lindner responded to this by starting Entrepreneurship Education in many Austrian schools and helps students become more entrepreneurial, self-dependent and lose the fear of taking initiative.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Away from the little widower and with Marjie innocent of all the trouble—free-spirited, self-dependent Marjie—the question of influence did not seem so easy.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter
