How to Use self-sufficiency in a Sentence

self-sufficiency

noun

• The goal is to provide a place to live right away and a path to self-sufficiency.
  — Gail Cornwall, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• At its simplest, this is a story about how Gia learns to trust again, to reject the myth of self-sufficiency.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Push for self-sufficiency The issue of egg supply and price has humbled shoppers across the board.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Cultivate self-sufficiency with a creation plan that works, and stay high energy for more of the week.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The country has been counting on its tech firms to help achieve technological self-sufficiency to catch up with the U.S.
  — Angela Huyue Zhang, TIME, 7 May 2024
• An exciting new law in the Show-Me State is promoting a pathway to self-sufficiency.
  — Arthur B. Laffer, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• Since then, Mayor Palmer has focused more on new arrivals, many from Venezuela, and how to match them with resources that support their self-sufficiency.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
• Get ready to enter the next evolutionary stage of your self-sufficiency.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Uranus in Taurus on the 9th also accents the importance of freedom and self-sufficiency.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
• Xi’s ambition is for China to achieve self-sufficiency in all these sectors.
  — George Magnus, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
• But the movement is about much more than just agricultural self-sufficiency.
  — Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
• Plus, the property boasts a number of other features for self-sufficiency.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• Not to mention hives for bees, water-capturing systems, and a goal of self-sufficiency through year-round harvesting.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Last year, Beijing reportedly banned use of the iPhone by government officials as part of a wider drive for tech self-sufficiency.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 15 Apr. 2024
• California for decades produced enough gasoline to supply almost all of its own needs, but the era of self-sufficiency is coming quickly to an end.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
• The shelters also provide resources such as case management aimed at long-term self-sufficiency, the office said.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
• Beijing has been pushing for self-sufficiency in core technologies as the United States and its allies curb the exports of key products like advanced chips to China.
  — Laura He, CNN, 19 July 2024
• The goal of UpStart is to move people into self-sufficiency and independence.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• For China, the race for technological self-sufficiency presents perhaps a greater challenge than any the country has faced.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Beijing, meanwhile, has sought to bolster its tech self-sufficiency, a goal top leaders reaffirmed at a key policy meeting last week.
  — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• Germany for example, also has a very high self-sufficiency rates.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• For Fieri, the trailers are about having control and maintaining self-sufficiency in uncertain times.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2024
• The Taliban have said they are focused on boosting economic self-sufficiency through trade and investment.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• There was much talk of self-sufficiency, a mode everyone in the town was forced into when the unprecedented blaze overwhelmed authorities and services.
  — Reis Thebault and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Some of these wilderness lovers choose to take this solitude to the extreme, electing to live as far from others as possible and relying on self-sufficiency for many of life's necessities.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• One nonprofit helps young brides and widows work toward self-sufficiency.
  — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
• State public-assistance programs should be there to provide support in times of need but designed to emphasize the importance of self-sufficiency.
  — Arthur B. Laffer, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• That means demonstrating self-sufficiency on the river and showing complete deference to Frith and his handful of volunteers.
  — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• Oregon’s self-serve-gas bill is a small victory for freedom in a state otherwise at war with the concepts of human self-sufficiency and self-determination.
  — Jeff Eager, National Review, 11 July 2023
• As a search for dominance and autonomy, however, Voss’s quest is destined to fail, for it’s based on an illusion of self-sufficiency and super-human status.
  — Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Jan 2025