autonomy
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Others are drawn by the autonomy and by social media, inexpensive digital tools and AI that made it easier and cheaper to strike out on their own.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
As AI takes on more autonomy, it’s easier to organize people—smaller teams—that can accomplish more, according to Smith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The company that makes the computer advertises more advanced modules, which it claims will provide additional and even full autonomy.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
At a time when servers are being shut down, physical media is being digitized out of existence, and the subscription model is supplanting personal ownership, Ruth believes this is a way to have data autonomy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Only further threats, notably Shays’s Rebellion of 1786 and the unsolved burden of war debt, overcame the ex-colonies’ extreme reluctance to sacrifice autonomy and pushed them into adopting our current strong federal constitution in 1787.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
They say it is an important step in closing the wounds left by the state takeover without sacrificing the autonomies that they say have been essential for driving academic progress.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2016
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 peace and civilization of future humanity must be founded on respect for existing national autonomies.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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