as in independence
the ability to care for one's self
self-sufficiency is a goal that all teenagers should work towards
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Recent Examples of self-sufficiency
Urban farming: Teach your community about food production and self-sufficiency through an urban farm.
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Chelsea Tobin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
China is countering not with tit-for-tat tariffs but with export bans on critical minerals, open-source AI workarounds, and a furious push for tech self-sufficiency.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 May 2025
The country also has a food self-sufficiency rate of 38%, compared with the government’s target of 45% by fiscal 2030.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 21 May 2025
The goal, according to the White House, is to encourage companies to manufacture in the U.S.
Yet tariffs are unlikely to increase American self-sufficiency anytime soon.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 May 2025
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Chelsea Tobin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
China is countering not with tit-for-tat tariffs but with export bans on critical minerals, open-source AI workarounds, and a furious push for tech self-sufficiency.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 May 2025
The country also has a food self-sufficiency rate of 38%, compared with the government’s target of 45% by fiscal 2030.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 21 May 2025
The goal, according to the White House, is to encourage companies to manufacture in the U.S.
Yet tariffs are unlikely to increase American self-sufficiency anytime soon.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-sufficiency
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Mossad leadership has in past decades made direct contact with Iraqi Kurdish officials, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first and potentially only world leader to support the KRG's independence bid in 2017, prompting further regional backlash.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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The Athletic maintains full editorial independence.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Stop micromanaging teams to death—a little autonomy helps.—
Jon Michail,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Read More: What the History of Saint Augustine Can Teach us About Pope Leo XIV Despite setting limits on the autonomy of the American Church, the social teachings of Leo XIII had enormous influence on Catholicism in the U.S., especially after the horrors of World War I.—
Time,
Time,
29 May 2025
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In the nineteen-sixties, Lebanon had explored an attempt at self-reliance.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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While China’s push to expand its manufacturing capabilities is part of its goal to achieve self-reliance, especially in high-tech sectors, this could run counter to the Trump administration’s demands that China address its trade imbalances, experts warn.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
29 May 2025
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“Self-sufficiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-sufficiency. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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