adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Britain used to be fully self-sufficient in coal.
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France was self-sufficient in cereals, and exported its surplus.
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His father died when he was seven, and consequently Joe learned to be self-sufficient from an early age.
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Many areas of the world still have self-sufficient rural economies.
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The Amish belong to a self-sufficient community that has existed for over 200 years.
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The new technologies have made India agriculturally self-sufficient .
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We grew up in a close-knit, self-sufficient family with few outside friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they are never complete or self-sufficient .
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Further, education prepares individuals to be self-reliant and self-sufficient participants in society.
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It was never his intention, he said, to create a self-sufficient community.
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She'd always seemed so self-contained, so self-sufficient .
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The design is based on the timber ship building pattern in which each section is a self-sufficient unit.
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The evidence also showed that the Amish have an excellent record as law-abiding and generally self-sufficient members of society....
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We are 75 percent. self-sufficient .
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Who is going to pay for the necessary education to make them into productive, self-sufficient people?