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"sustaining themselves" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to express a person's attempts to independently support their own livelihood, without relying on someone else. For example, you could say, "Many low-income communities are struggling to find new ways of sustaining themselves."
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How are global fishing fleets sustaining themselves?
They live in the soil, sustaining themselves on decomposing vegetation.
It's too time-consuming; the primary goal is not sustaining the land but sustaining themselves.
But recent events raise an issue: "technology companies have not done well in sustaining themselves when their founders leave".
Despite the challenges of sustaining themselves financially, Oakland's arts groups are cautiously optimistic about the city's cultural prospects.
Recent events raise another issue: technology companies have not done well in sustaining themselves when their founders leave.
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"Our towns and cities cannot sustain themselves".
How do such populations sustain themselves?
"They won't be able to sustain themselves.
Others sustain themselves by their chemoautotrophic bacterial associations.
"Can publishers of women's Web sites sustain themselves?
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