Example Sentences

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Whether or not the latest wave of self-helping meditators or corporate practitioners of ‘mindfulness’ know it, the spiritual enlightenment sweeping America has strong ties to Buddhism, thanks in part to one huggable ex-monk in California.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2014

The example he gave was Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, which he saw as a utopian portrait of the self-helping capitalist.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2012

I just want to raise strong, individual, self-helping, little people.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2011

Many lawyers feel the same way about the competence of self-helping laymen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now there can be no kind of doubt that the passive type of character is favored by the government of one or a few, and the active self-helping type by that of the many.

From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart