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autonomy

[aw-ton-uh-mee] / ɔˈtɒn ə mi /


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But a lenient countermessage framed as female autonomy is no better.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

However, the deal represented the last nail in the coffin for the Kurds' long-held dream of autonomy.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Creator Vince Gilligan’s Emmy-nominated postapocalyptic sci-fi series “Pluribus” focuses on a dozen or so people who somehow held onto their autonomy and did not join the rest of humanity as a collective, single-minded pod.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Bill supporters argue improving care services and giving terminally ill people "autonomy" over their final weeks must go hand in hand.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

And indeed, the loss of real autonomy in Athens and other cities had significant consequences.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The underlying premise is that charter schools must have certain autonomies and flexibilities to function effectively.

From Washington Post Jan. 9, 2023

Spinning on an axis of anxiety, “Huesera” raises the provocative idea that motherhood can feel akin to a curse stripping one of stability and sacred autonomies.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2022

Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms.

From Washington Post Mar. 9, 2015

Opinions in Spain would split according to autonomies and political colour.

From Economist May 15, 2012

The Constitution will provide the nation with the possibility of exercising its special energies in local autonomies delimited by natural, social and economic conditions.

From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Robert Joseph Kerner




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