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
Habit, indeed, governs half the world; it is like a self-moving machine, when once started, continuing, of its own accord, in the same direction and with the same velocity.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
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