self-reliance
noun
self-re·li·ance
ˌself-ri-ˈlī-ənts 
: reliance on one's own efforts and abilities
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some people don't achieve self-reliance until they're over 30 years old
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And cowboys, working the grueling cattle drives, came to embody values linked to the frontier: self-reliance, strength and independence.
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Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
Alpha Kappa Alpha, like Alpha Phi Alpha before it, was forged as an act of self-reliance: inspired by stories of sorority life on other college campuses, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, a Howard student from St. Louis, recruited classmates to create a group of their own, in the spring of 1907.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Unschooling offered an antidote to these concerns about formal schooling while aligning nicely with the lifestyle values of freedom, autonomy and self-reliance that drew many parents to worldschooling in the first place.
—Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
These are all elements of a successful polity: respect for property rights, self-reliance, and a commitment to act as a good neighbor.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
Alpha Kappa Alpha, like Alpha Phi Alpha before it, was forged as an act of self-reliance: inspired by stories of sorority life on other college campuses, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, a Howard student from St. Louis, recruited classmates to create a group of their own, in the spring of 1907.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Unschooling offered an antidote to these concerns about formal schooling while aligning nicely with the lifestyle values of freedom, autonomy and self-reliance that drew many parents to worldschooling in the first place.
—Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
These are all elements of a successful polity: respect for property rights, self-reliance, and a commitment to act as a good neighbor.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for self-reliance
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“Self-reliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-reliance. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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