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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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
“It also applies to transgender players who can now switch at a self-determined time or remain initially in the team in which they’d been playing previously,” the DFB said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Ian had few role models for her self-determined path, citing only Nina Simone and Victoria Spivey, a blues singer and writer who made her first impact in the 1920s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2022
The openness of her self-determined chords matched what she was reaching for in her lyrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2021
All the sequences which that activity displays within this region are self-determined, in the sense that they are determined by the self, and not by any agency external to it.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes
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