semiautonomous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of semiautonomous
First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + autonomous
Example Sentences
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Instead of chasing chatbot use, Anthropic focused on business customers, especially coding automation, viewing semiautonomous software-writing as a potential takeoff point for more advanced AI capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Alternate proposals would make Donnyland into an economic development zone — a city-state like Monaco on the French Mediterranean that could be semiautonomous.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026
Weyerhaeuser is also studying semiautonomous logging equipment, and working to automate other parts of the logging process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Licenses granted before the moratorium have opened up the possibility of a new revenue source that could help Greenland become financially independent from Denmark, which currently subsidizes the semiautonomous territory.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
The centrioles and basal bodies are believed in some quarters to be semiautonomous organisms with their own separate genomes.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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