self-moving
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-moving
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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Before now, Kriegman said, “no one has been using living materials as self-moving, self-powered robots.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Eternally patient and silent, these looming claymen have a greater dignity than sinister, prattling living dolls or self-moving puppets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Here the bench is innocently believed to be self-moving.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
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