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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Palantir’s operational layer will become “increasingly important,” she said, as AI applications move to becoming agentic systems that can work autonomously across several tasks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Cybersecurity firm Asymmetric Security analyzed the activity of the agents -- AI programs capable of acting autonomously -- which targeted Australian government websites and other public bodies between March and September.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Research leaders at Meta Platforms and Microsoft joined OpenAI and Anthropic in calling for Washington to investigate artificial-intelligence systems that are able to autonomously self-improve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In certain instances of the agent activity, OpenAI said the tools, essentially AI bots that are designed and trained to operate somewhat autonomously, "bypassed" security controls of some websites.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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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