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by themselves

1. with help from no one else. Do you think they can do it by themselves? Mike and Max cannot lift the piano by themselves.

2. with no one else present; alone (of two or more people). They are sitting there by themselves. Let's sit with them. They enjoy spending the evening at home by themselves.

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