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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All are fully modular—meaning they can be equipped with any payload necessary—and can process data autonomously, Mavrookas said in the podcast interview.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Land-based autonomy can be more precise than striking targets autonomously from the air, he says.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
One driver of the shift was Anthropic’s limited April release of Claude Mythos — with that model withheld from the general public because of its ability to autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Nvidia late on Sunday unveiled the RTX Spark, which it described as “the most efficient PC chip ever built,” designed for personal devices to run AI agents—programs that can act autonomously.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 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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