How to Use autonomous in a Sentence

autonomous

adjective

• Native American nations are regarded as autonomous in many respects and thus not subject to a number of state and local laws.
• But the tech isn’t ready for autonomous weapons.
  — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
• An autonomous agent that grinds away for two days can also be wrong for two days.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• But even in the movies, autonomous tech wasn’t without its flaws.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
• How many of us have not longed for a small autonomous aircraft aboard our weekend car?
  — Ronald Ahrens, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2022
• Fully autonomous planes could be coming to a flight near you—and that’s not a good thing.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• Achieving these goals does not need autonomous tools with humans in the loop.
  — Mohammad Hosseini, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
• The autonomous cars can watch for pedestrians, change lanes and make right-hand turns.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• The software is still in beta, and is far from fully autonomous in spite of its name.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• These avatars are not autonomous.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
• Most of the traits that are cool are also good, being autonomous and open, for instance.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
• Think back to when blockchain first appeared or the notion of an autonomous car—from hype to mainstream.
  — Ashik Ahmed, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Fully autonomous home robots still face a tough road.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
• The shuttles would be autonomous and leave from transit hubs, where people can park.
  — Desiree Mathurin april 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026
• From that point onward, right up until the sample tube was sealed and stored, the process was autonomous.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2021
• Moving to the front row gives a glimpse into our autonomous future.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2022
• It was granted the right to behave like an autonomous city and soon began doing just that.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
• To some critics, that’s where autonomous cars belong for the time being.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• That word is autonomous — which, at this point, is not well thought out and at best is loose marketing talk that needs to be reined in.
  — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The investment comes during a time when demand for autonomous drones is at an all-time high.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• These days, Austin, Texas feels like ground zero for autonomous cars.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
• All this comes as the autonomous vehicles space is going through a major change up.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• The idea is to equip autonomous ships with advanced weapons that can operate across large areas of the ocean.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
• Nature is not simply something that is outside, a kind of autonomous sphere of our lives.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The cars will have live humans behind the wheel, but the vehicles will be in autonomous mode.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
• Though the high-speed train is autonomous, a monitoring driver is on board at all times.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
• In recent years, his focus has shifted away from cheap cars to fully autonomous ones.
  — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
• The non-highway autonomous driving space is vast.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Even small errors could lead to crashes from which the autonomous drones could not recover.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
• The heating points will be equipped with autonomous power sources, as well as special boiler rooms.
  — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022