ADJECTIVE
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able to provide for your own needs without help from others
a self-sufficing economic unit
How To Use self-sustaining In A Sentence
- The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
- The result might be a chain reaction: a self-sustaining release of nuclear energy.
- An autopoietic system is basically a self-made and self-sustaining ensemble.
- Strengthening of that infrastructure would stimulate self-sustaining growth in the private sector-growth which would continue after federal assistance had been withdrawn.
- In the late 1960s, hundreds of hippies left the cities and suburbs to establish self-sustaining communes. A Renegade History of the United States
- It's a consumer-driven recovery, " said Burt White, who helps oversee $284 billion as chief investment officer at LPL Financial Corp. "It's a self-sustaining recovery.
- Mixes that contain only wildflowers usually need reseeding the first few years until the plants produce enough seed to become self-sustaining.
- In the short term, have several self-sustaining arcologies / ecologies throughout the solar system.
- The inevitable fully-green global society is growing not simply out of the need to design a self-sustaining lifeway. William Horden: The Tao Of Green: Love Of Humanity And Nature
- At least the naivety of those “genre” novels has been put in its place; these pretend to be proper books, with complex approaches to trauma, even as in their use of the strange and the diegetic they seek to infiltrate and undermine the literary order — which is to say the self-sustaining absolutes, the “what is, is” of maieutic miserablism. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books