How to Use autonomy in a Sentence

autonomy

noun

• The territory has been granted autonomy.
• That human being also has the right to bodily autonomy.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Burke believes that the other two employee desires, autonomy and having a rich life outside of work, are strongly linked.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022
• Dobbs was in no way the removal of the final brick in a steadily crumbling wall of protections for reproductive autonomy.
  — Laurence H. Tribe, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
• The implant aims to restore autonomy by allowing users to control digital devices through thought alone.
  — Marie Boran, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Over the past 30 years, more governments allowed their central banks to set policy with greater autonomy from the finance ministry.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• This gave Parks the freedom of collaboration with the autonomy of working solo.
  — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022
• For parents, exercising autonomy can be even more challenging.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
• Women are consistently having to re-explain and reassert their independence and their autonomy.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2022
• This is just one step of many more that need to happen on the path to full autonomy.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2021
• Some of those groups have fought for greater autonomy for decades.
  — Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 27 Dec. 2016
• At the end of the day, everyone should have full autonomy over their own body.
  — Women's Health, 31 Jan. 2023
• This is what powers her and the show itself: a hunger for autonomy and the finer things in life.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• The call for women's autonomy wasn't limited to the world of sports.
  — Jane Greenway Carr, CNN, 12 Dec. 2021
• The teams that performed best at this task were those who gave the robots some autonomy, says Orekhov.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The question of how much autonomy colleges have over Greek life is a tricky one.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• Finding Nemo grappled with a child’s need for autonomy through the eyes of clown fish.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
• There’s no part of me that wants to just work on my own and have complete autonomy over the final product.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
• These trucks operate with hands-free autonomy but have a driver in the cab who can grab the wheel just in case.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Most artists have no autonomy, which means that once their work leaves the studio and goes to the gallery, their involvement with it is through.
  — M.h. Miller, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• But some may prefer to try out pronouns at school, among their peers, for a sense of autonomy.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The agreement also gave the units more autonomy to conduct raids of their own.
  — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• The danger is that its users lose their autonomy, or any desire for it.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
• But the kinds of autonomy on the horizon are different.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Her dream was to have more autonomy and work more closely with the people in those circles.
  — Ruth Baum Bigus, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• Now, Ben intended to go it alone, both for autonomy and to keep costs down.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• That loss of autonomy and the feeling of outsider meddling could make any coach say enough is enough.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2019
• And at least within the West, no one should fear Europe’s autonomy.
  — Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2023
• But a lot of people just see it as a way of having autonomy, being their own boss.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
• And so there's a tremendous amount of autonomy in the vehicle.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 July 2020

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024