autonomy
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Bill supporters argue improving care services and giving terminally ill people "autonomy" over their final weeks must go hand in hand.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The company has emphasized the importance of sovereign AI, pushing to give organizations autonomy over their data and models.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The characters share a fierce drive to fight for what they believe is right, which, for Carol, means maintaining her autonomy and resisting the good-vibes group contentment of the Others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
As much as we might wish otherwise, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift are not like us, and we cannot measure their autonomy and power on the same scale as ours.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
The eastern frontier, where Dacca was located, was fighting for autonomy from the ruling regime in the west.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Spinning on an axis of anxiety, “Huesera” raises the provocative idea that motherhood can feel akin to a curse stripping one of stability and sacred autonomies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
They say it is an important step in closing the wounds left by the state takeover without sacrificing the autonomies that they say have been essential for driving academic progress.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2016
Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015
Opinions in Spain would split according to autonomies and political colour.
From Economist ● May 15, 2012
The Constitution will provide the nation with the possibility of exercising its special energies in local autonomies delimited by natural, social and economic conditions.
From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Robert Joseph Kerner
Vocabulary lists containing autonomy
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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Human Geography - Middle School
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