self-determined
Americanadjective
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(of a program, course of action, etc.) chosen and controlled by oneself.
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(of a person) choosing and controlling one's own actions, career, path through life, etc.
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(of a people or nation) self-governed.
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When we see strong-willed, self-determined women, particularly women of color, presented as symbols of female desirability whom men should aspire to make themselves worthy of, paradigms shift in the culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
His self-determined walk away into the sunrise is a victory over a ruinous game that would have stolen the jersey off his back years ago had he not been so calculatedly self-protective.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the new humanitarian relocation program is intended to give those persecuted by the Taliban “a bit of home and the chance of a free, self-determined and secure life.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Ms. Eilish seems similarly inclined to present her metamorphosis as a shrewdly brazen, self-determined update.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
Now here is the question, How can the soul be self-active, self-determined, and yet all its thoughts, and feelings, and volitions, have producing causes?
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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