autonomously
Americanadverb
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in a way that is self-governing or free of outside control; independently.
The ideal candidate will be able to work autonomously and without supervision.
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with little or no human control or intervention.
We have developed a service robot that operates autonomously, in concert with a network of devices in its environment.
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Biology.
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as an independent organism.
Viruses, on the boundary between living and nonliving, cannot autonomously reproduce but require the biochemistry and structure of a host cell.
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naturally or spontaneously, without cultivation.
They organized a work day to get rid of the plants growing wildly, autonomously, and unwantedly all around the building.
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AI models that underpin tools like chatbots and image generators are known as agents when they act autonomously to carry out tasks in the real world.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!"
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Anthropic’s revenue skyrocketed late last year as millions of new users tapped their Claude Code and Cowork software to autonomously complete a range of tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The San Francisco company, founded in 2022, enables engineers to instruct software in English to run coding tasks autonomously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant?
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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