"plough one's own furrow" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ploughs one's own furrow",
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    {
      "form": "ploughing one's own furrow",
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    {
      "form": "ploughed one's own furrow",
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      "form": "ploughed one's own furrow",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Pamela Evans, The Overcommitted Christian: Serving God Without Wearing Out:",
          "text": "Distinctiveness and individuality are not the same as individualism, in which the determination to plough one's own furrow regardless can be a threat to unity.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To go one's own way; to proceed independently, without regard to other people."
      ],
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          "go one's own way",
          "go one's own way"
        ],
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          "proceed",
          "proceed"
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          "independently",
          "independently"
        ],
        [
          "regard",
          "regard"
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        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "plough a lonely furrow"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "forge one's own path"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "plough one's own furrow"
}

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    {
      "form": "ploughs one's own furrow",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing one's own furrow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's own furrow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's own furrow",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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      ],
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          "regard",
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          "word": "forge one's own path"
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  "word": "plough one's own furrow"
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