semiautonomous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of semiautonomous
First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + autonomous
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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
What began as a way to autocomplete code quickly evolved into semiautonomous AI bots, or “agents,” that can work for hours on end with little human oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
As a semiautonomous Danish territory, Greenland is protected by NATO, which would not only marshal the U.S. military to respond to any attack but would also rally the alliance’s other 31 countries.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
The island, a semiautonomous Danish territory, controls its own domestic policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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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