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agentic

American  
[uh-jent-ik, ay-] / əˈdʒɛnt ɪk, eɪ- /

adjective

  1. Digital Technology. (of artificial intelligence) capable of acting independently to accomplish a goal or task; acting like a human agent.

  2. (of a person) focused on one's own goals and acting independently to set and achieve them, as opposed to seeking or accepting direction, serving the goals of others, etc.

  3. (of a process or activity) allowing participants to make their own judgments and decisions and work independently to achieve a goal.


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The company has delivered over 7 billion agentic work units — a metric Salesforce uses to measure work completed by AI — across Agentforce and Slack, with 3.2 billion in the second quarter alone.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

An agentic Siri will need to go beyond chatbot capabilities to retrieve personalized context on devices and execute multistep workflows.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

That reflects the stickiness of the product as well as the launch of multidocument agentic capabilities in March, according to Drumright.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The AI server pipeline rose 157% on quarter, reflecting the ramp of agentic AI workloads among enterprise customers, Kyna Wong and others write.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

She clearly wants to try to determine her own identity in an agentic manner versus accepting one that’s forced upon her by a patriarchal society.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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