alone
adjective, adverb
if you do something alone, you do it without any help from other people
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Without help and acting alone
unilateral
adjective
done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other countries etc think or want
(all) on your own
without any help
under your own steam
without the help of anyone else
on your own account
by yourself or for yourself rather than with or for someone else
(all) by yourself/itself/himself etc
without being helped by anyone else
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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