hands-off

Example Sentences

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It also introduced an optional subscription package called Autonomy+ for driver-assistance features, such as hands-off driving.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

The federal government takes a hands-off approach to these grants for good reason.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

It calls for the sustainability of public finances to be restored, adding efforts previously taken to control such finances by the Treasury were "limited and hands-off".

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

But among some inside the Police Department, there are growing frustrations with officer discipline and the new chief’s hands-off style.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell