independent
Example Sentences
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He has crafted back stories and personalities for the players, who all seem to have independent lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper previously said the vetting process is "independent of ministers who are not informed of any findings other than the final outcome".
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
You can’t be “niche” doing arenas, and there’s this independent boom that’s not going to wait for anybody.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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