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Recent Examples of hands-off
Despite many of these games using similar concepts from CBS' Survivor, the network has taken a largely hands-off approach to the players.
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Charlotte Walsh, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
The vineyard is currently leased to a local winemaker, offering a hands-off approach to production, though the resulting vintages can be stored in the home’s custom wine cellar, which accommodates up to 1,880 bottles.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 May 2026
In the show, the hands-off rule is invoked, but not by Garrett.
—Jennifer McClellan, USA Today, 17 May 2026
But the casualty of that change is that the campus-wide hands-off law made a little less sense too, because now Garrett is the one who breaks up with Hannah.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 13 May 2026
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Charlotte Walsh, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
The vineyard is currently leased to a local winemaker, offering a hands-off approach to production, though the resulting vintages can be stored in the home’s custom wine cellar, which accommodates up to 1,880 bottles.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 May 2026
In the show, the hands-off rule is invoked, but not by Garrett.
—Jennifer McClellan, USA Today, 17 May 2026
But the casualty of that change is that the campus-wide hands-off law made a little less sense too, because now Garrett is the one who breaks up with Hannah.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hands-off
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Snow, slush and messy weather can challenge autonomous vehicles in ways sunny streets cannot.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Designed for operation in complex real-world environments, Dyno integrates a sophisticated AI system with a highly responsive sensor suite that enables autonomous navigation, situational awareness, and human-robot interaction.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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Cepeda has advocated for a more independent foreign policy and greater Latin American integration, while right-wing candidates Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia have argued for closer alignment with Washington on security and economic issues.—
Sebastian Jimenez,
CNN Money,
31 May 2026
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Local businesses, such as independent coffee shops, small law or accounting firms, boutique fitness studios, and neighborhood landscaping companies, often have job openings.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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And Secrets suspects that a younger, noninterventionist crowd would have boosted Vance’s numbers.—
Rob Crilly,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Mar. 2026
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Does the beginning of this war tell us anything meaningful about the long-running battle between the interventionist and noninterventionist wings of American conservativism?—
Suzanne Schneider,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Mar. 2026
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Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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These are the ocular dominance columns, described in the Nobel Prize-winning research of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the 1960s, whose recordings from cats’ (Felis catus) and macaques’ (genus Macaca) revealed that the visual cortex is not a neutral integrator of the two eyes’ signals.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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In other systems, media avoid particular partisan entanglements and present themselves to audiences as providers of neutral information to a nonaligned public.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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The United States’ incursion has split Latin America, with leaders aligned with President Donald Trump, mostly from the right, applauding the ouster, and nonaligned leaders condemning it on sovereignty grounds.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Gulf SWFs ramp up spending despite Iran war Against the backdrop of the Iran war, Gulf sovereign wealth funds have stepped up dealmaking over the last few months–with the five biggest funds collectively investing nearly $26 billion at a higher deployment pace than over the previous five years.—
Alyson Shontell,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Today, the fund is the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, holding and profiting from more than $2 trillion in stocks, bonds, infrastructure and real estate.—
Ola Morris Innset,
The Dial,
2 June 2026
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That means unaffiliated voters could not participate in Tuesday’s election, despite recent legal efforts to change the system.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
20 May 2026
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Democrats enjoy a steep demographic advantage over Republicans, though unaffiliated voters outnumber both parties.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
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“Hands-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hands-off. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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