semiautonomous
adjective
semi·au·ton·o·mous
ˌse-mē-ȯ-ˈtä-nə-məs 
ˌse-ˌmī-,
-mi-
: largely self-governing within a larger political or organizational entity
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As a semiautonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark, the island is also part of NATO.
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Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Ambiguous in its text, the law intends to keep Iraq out of Israel’s expanding sphere of influence and also pressure the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government to reduce its cooperation with Israel.
—Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022
To be sure, Iraq now has a semiautonomous Kurdish region, and Ankara has not only made its peace with that but established good relations with the regional government.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Ultimately, given enough time, those digital memory constructs will evolve into what can be loosely described as our external brains in the cloud—imagine a semiautonomous process that knows enough about you to act on your behalf in a limited fashion.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2013
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Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Ambiguous in its text, the law intends to keep Iraq out of Israel’s expanding sphere of influence and also pressure the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government to reduce its cooperation with Israel.
—Maria Fantappie, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022
To be sure, Iraq now has a semiautonomous Kurdish region, and Ankara has not only made its peace with that but established good relations with the regional government.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Ultimately, given enough time, those digital memory constructs will evolve into what can be loosely described as our external brains in the cloud—imagine a semiautonomous process that knows enough about you to act on your behalf in a limited fashion.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2013
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“Semiautonomous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semiautonomous. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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