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autonomy

[aw-ton-uh-mee] / ɔˈtɒn ə mi /


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Beta simply grants Coltrane the autonomy to define her own experience, which shouldn’t be radical, and yet it is.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

In 2015, there was a sense that Taiwan was negotiating from a position of relative strength, or at least autonomy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Perhaps France fears that its strategic autonomy would be weakened by joining a bank that it would only partly own.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

However, he warned that “clearer evidence that unsupervised autonomy is around the corner” is needed to justify Tesla’s valuation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Scholars debate these estimates, but nobody disputes that the Haudenosaunee exemplified the formidable tradition of limited government and personal autonomy shared by many cultures north of the Rio Grande.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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