Examples of autarkic in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
During the past century, Pinkas said, four countries have behaved like an autarkic Sparta: Nazi Germany, apartheid-era South Africa, Albania under its Communist regime, and, most recently, North Korea.
—
Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Putin has adopted autarkic self-reliance and other ideas that appear to draw on North Korea’s Juche ideology—the doctrine formulated by Kim Jong Il in 1982 that seeks to foreground national economic and military self-reliance.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
Third, instead of engaging in autarkic policies to build the technologies of the future and produce the raw materials needed for them through industrial policy, the U.S., EU, Japan, and other allies ought to use comparative advantages to build these technologies.
—Thomas J. Duesterberg and David Asher, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
To live freely and yet remain at once autarkic and socially viable was no cinch for a single woman at the time.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
Unless we’re truly heading to an autarkic war-footing, those supply chains will continue to crisscross the globe.
—Washington Post, 31 May 2019
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Putin has adopted autarkic self-reliance and other ideas that appear to draw on North Korea’s Juche ideology—the doctrine formulated by Kim Jong Il in 1982 that seeks to foreground national economic and military self-reliance.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
Third, instead of engaging in autarkic policies to build the technologies of the future and produce the raw materials needed for them through industrial policy, the U.S., EU, Japan, and other allies ought to use comparative advantages to build these technologies.
—Thomas J. Duesterberg and David Asher, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
To live freely and yet remain at once autarkic and socially viable was no cinch for a single woman at the time.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
Unless we’re truly heading to an autarkic war-footing, those supply chains will continue to crisscross the globe.
—Washington Post, 31 May 2019
Cite this Entry
“Autarkic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autarkic. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share