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  • The very first one read: The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?†  (source)
  • Tonight, Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 is barking.†  (source)
  • In summary, as he helped me into my coat, he gave me the route map: loss of memory, short— and long-term, the disappearance of single words—simple nouns might be the first to go—then language itself, along with balance, and soon after, all motor control, and finally the autonomous nervous system.†  (source)
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  • And, most of all, it's autonomous.†  (source)
  • It can't handle itself autonomously?†  (source)
  • Still, the idea of segments allows the surgeon to define areas of liver that have a full complement of blood and bile conduits and that are therefore semiautonomous units, subfactories within the factory.†  (source)
    semiautonomous = partially self-controlled
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semiautonomous means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • Thus on San Piedro the silent-toiling, autonomous gill-netter became the collective image of the good man.†  (source)
  • For a portion of the game, the machines would run autonomously.†  (source)
  • Your enterprising partner, Mr. Lee Back in his cool little house, SemiAutonomous Guard Unit #A-367 is howling.†  (source)
  • These were students whose paths might never have had reason to cross, given how autonomous the various disciplines at Carnegie Mellon could be.†  (source)
  • They could hurl balls through the air and could even operate autonomously.†  (source)
  • Hinduism has similar problems, not to mention vicious burnings of brides by their new families, but Hindu women in India are more autonomous and more likely to be educated than their Muslim women neighbors.†  (source)
  • Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant?†  (source)
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