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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But unlike the Falcon 9, the Long March 10B does not autonomously land on a ground pad or drone ship.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
These companies, like their global rivals, are also ploughing resources into the development of physical AI -- technology that allows robots to move and interact with the world autonomously.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Today, AI-guided weapons can autonomously home in on objectives a controller picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The company’s 8R tractor can operate autonomously while being controlled by a smartphone and has been deployed at large-scale commodity farms growing corn, soy and wheat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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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