autonomy
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Now, the autonomy gained by using AI means that all these devices that are less immediate targets become interesting targets as a launchpad to attack more interesting targets.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I'm in a happy, healthy relationship and I have total autonomy over my own life," says the singer, now in her early 30s.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Respondent’s behavior, although nonconsensual, did not exhibit a deliberate disregard for the dignity and autonomy of Complainant but was instead an error in judgment,” Waguespack wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Russia conceded autonomy to Estonia and Ukraine, while Germany accelerated plans to found a Lithuanian state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
However, there was an element of autonomy in the younger girl’s unhappiness.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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 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
Vocabulary lists containing autonomy
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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