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on one's own
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without anyone else to support or accompany one
Example
I'm perfectly capable of handling this task on my own.
The manager valued employees with the gumption to make sensible decisions on their own.
She didn't feel safe on her own while walking home at night.
The artist's abstract paintings were so impenetrable that viewers were left to interpret their meaning on their own.
The disease wasted her so severely that she could barely stand on her own.