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Recent Examples of self-supporting Despite concerns that failure to be in the blue reading group in first grade dooms a child’s adult options to a career in coal mining (or worse, a lesser UC), both have been completely self-supporting (and not in the coal-mining industry) since graduating from college. Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025 The homes' cutting-edge features are designed to feed into a self-supporting energy system that powers each neighborhood with a community battery and has the capability to operate independently during a grid outage. Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-supporting
independent
Adjective
  • The McClatchy Commerce Content team, which is independent from our newsroom, oversees this content.
    Calesa Township, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Then, as president, Joe Biden twice said that the people of Taiwan should decide whether to be independent.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Self-supporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-supporting. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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