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Example sentences for: self-sufficient

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The poem performs its theme; it is self-sufficient, it runs on its own power.
By the middle of the 18th century, New Orleans had grown into a town — not exactly self-sufficient, but beyond the survival stage.
Your past contribution provided a direct line of support for local programs that promote health and wellness, strengthen families, invest in our children, help people become self-sufficient, and serve the elderly and disabled.
Or who helps David learn important job skills that will enable him to become self-sufficient?
A multi-year, rigorous study to be released today finds that women enrolled in one of the nation's best-funded programs for disadvantaged teenaged mothers still failed to improve their chances of becoming self-sufficient.