How to Use self-reliant in a Sentence

self-reliant

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  • Who may have become self-reliant in a way her siblings had not.
    — Azazel Jacobs, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Neeleman wants to inspire people to know where their food comes from and to be self-reliant.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The very Americans most likely to think of themselves as bold and self-reliant are the ones who seem most terrified.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • For the first three years, its ambition was to aid the formerly enslaved to become self-reliant.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Men are also taught to be self-reliant and not ask for help, Tran added, which can lead to anger, stress, anxiety, and depression.
    — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Washington’s friends would be more secure and more self-reliant, and its foes would once again fear American power.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Her father taught her that cash was king and a woman should always be financially self-reliant.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The brash, self-determining, self-reliant figure Hurston conjures up as the prototype of the Jew is Hurston herself, a woman who would not let others tell her how to live.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The project of Russia as a self-reliant supercontinent, bestride Europe and Asia, has already failed.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The people here are compelled by their isolation to be self-reliant — the island is 27 miles to the nearest major grocery store on the mainland, and there’s only a single two-lane road — with no stoplight — out of town.
    — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Bailey wants the city to become more self-reliant, installing its own solar panels and batteries that reserve power overnight.
    — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In Putin’s current calculus, the specter of a sovereign, self-reliant Ukraine poses a far graver threat to Russia than the more distant prospect of economic degradation.
    — Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 2025
  • His dream was to create a place for young African Americans to build sustainable, self-reliant systems for producing and distributing their art.
    — The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Some of their breakthroughs, such as the nuclear tests that began in the mid-1970s, brought sanctions and restrictions on knowledge sharing that forced the scientists to become self-reliant for leaps forward.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these newly free-standing people never look back and become self-reliant globe-trotting laundry-slayers.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
  • Accustomed to her dad forgetting her pickup time, happily self-reliant Hana has walked home.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The 1964 film, which starred Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar for her performance, depicts a sensible and self-reliant British nanny with magical powers.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There is, beneath everything, an impetus to become more self-reliant.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
  • These schools teach children language, math and business skills—empowering them to become self-reliant and successful.
    — Kirk Feller, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2023
  • With little money and food to buy, Gogi needed to be self-reliant—classical methods guaranteed a harvest.
    — Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The surge in spending shows how interconnected China and the United States remain, despite vigorous efforts by each country to be more self-reliant.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Chile looks to the future Chile is an example of how Latin America is embracing renewable energy while trying to plan a more self-reliant future.
    — Zdenka Myslikova, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • The Adani Group is reacting to India’s ambition to become more self-reliant in defence manufacturing and export more arms.
    — Yessar Rosendar, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The country is not allowed to purchase spares for its pre-revolution era Western arms, which include around 40 F-14 Tomcat fighter jets, prompting its government to become more self-reliant.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • My mother always stressed the importance of being self-reliant, especially for women.
    — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Though Tuesday’s mission didn’t go entirely as planned, the space agency hopes the Ariane 6 rocket system will go on to make the space agency more self-reliant and even challenge SpaceX’s dominance in the global market for launching satellites.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • Witherspoon presents Margot not as some unhappy bachelorette, but as a modern, self-reliant woman.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Genuine connection invites us to embrace vulnerability and balance, proving that even the most self-reliant can find fulfillment in the warmth and trust of another.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Thus, far from being self-reliant and self-funding, Ramaswamy needs genuine billionaires to sustain his cash-burning enterprises.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Ledger said many of his buyers wanted properties that allowed opportunities to become more self-reliant.
    — Sara B. Hansen, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024

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