How to Use autonomy in a Sentence
autonomy
noun
- The territory has been granted autonomy.
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This is just one step of many more that need to happen on the path to full autonomy.
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K.c. Colwell,
Car and Driver,
6 Aug. 2021
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Some of those groups have fought for greater autonomy for decades.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
27 Dec. 2016
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At the end of the day, everyone should have full autonomy over their own body.
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Women's Health,
31 Jan. 2023
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This is what powers her and the show itself: a hunger for autonomy and the finer things in life.
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Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
11 Nov. 2021
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But the kinds of autonomy on the horizon are different.
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The Economist,
25 Jan. 2018
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The agreement also gave the units more autonomy to conduct raids of their own.
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ProPublica,
15 Dec. 2022
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The call for women's autonomy wasn't limited to the world of sports.
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Jane Greenway Carr,
CNN,
12 Dec. 2021
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The rise of the factory gave workers more pay but less autonomy.
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The Economist,
1 Apr. 2021
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The danger is that its users lose their autonomy, or any desire for it.
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Phillip MacIak,
The New Republic,
9 May 2023
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Her dream was to have more autonomy and work more closely with the people in those circles.
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Ruth Baum Bigus,
Kansas City Star,
17 Jan. 2024
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There’s no part of me that wants to just work on my own and have complete autonomy over the final product.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
8 Oct. 2021
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These trucks operate with hands-free autonomy but have a driver in the cab who can grab the wheel just in case.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2022
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The question of how much autonomy colleges have over Greek life is a tricky one.
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Chris Quintana,
USA TODAY,
21 July 2019
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That loss of autonomy and the feeling of outsider meddling could make any coach say enough is enough.
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Chris Solari,
Detroit Free Press,
20 Nov. 2019
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And so there's a tremendous amount of autonomy in the vehicle.
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William Harwood,
CBS News,
28 July 2020
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His years of watching films and writing about them had given him a tetchy sort of autonomy.
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Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
10 Sep. 2023
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But some may prefer to try out pronouns at school, among their peers, for a sense of autonomy.
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Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Sep. 2023
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The goal of coercive control is to strip a victim of autonomy.
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Kellie Lynch,
Chron,
23 May 2022
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Finding Nemo grappled with a child’s need for autonomy through the eyes of clown fish.
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2022
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Each of us has complete autonomy, and veto rights which are rarely used.
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Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Nov. 2022
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There’s bound to be some discussion about the gain the assistant made in new autonomy.
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John Canzano,
oregonlive,
25 Jan. 2021
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Critics of the law say that autonomy is being eroded fast.
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Reuters,
NBC News,
28 July 2022
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Along with that autonomy comes a range of reasons for why people do or don't prefer to have hair down there.
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Samantha Lauriello,
Health.com,
27 June 2019
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But weapons with some degree of autonomy are likely to be deployed by both sides.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
1 Mar. 2022
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What is autonomy when some version of your thoughts are read into a circuit board?
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Elissa Welle,
STAT,
18 July 2022
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Most artists have no autonomy, which means that once their work leaves the studio and goes to the gallery, their involvement with it is through.
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M.h. Miller,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2023
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But Barr also showed flashes of autonomy at the end of his tenure.
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Katie Benner,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 Dec. 2020
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This can often result in a lack of autonomy and can lead to resistance.
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Eldad Postan-Koren,
Forbes,
6 Feb. 2023
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The teams that performed best at this task were those who gave the robots some autonomy, says Orekhov.
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Kurt Kleiner,
Discover Magazine,
27 July 2023
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