independent

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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

There’s no independent power, since the boss calls all the shots.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

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From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis