autarky
a condition of economic self-sufficiency and independence from outside trade or control
Autarky in a sentence
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The regime pursued autarky, refusing to import goods it could produce at home.
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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.
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