hands-off

adjective

Definition of hands-offnext
as in autonomous

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Recent Examples of hands-off The auto-docking and LiDAR mapping features make hands-off cleaning easy. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 July 2026 Many states take a hands-off approach, essentially leaving it to you to figure out if a school has problems. — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 16 July 2026 Neighborhood leaders argue this safety component is why the city shouldn’t be completely hands-off. — Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026 For travelers, this shift requires participating in a rigorous environmental ritual that challenges the traditional hands-off approach to vacationing. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for hands-off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hands-off
  1. autonomous
  2. independent
  3. noninterventionist
  4. neutral
  5. nonaligned
  6. sovereign
  7. unaffiliated
Adjective
  • Hardware learns signal speeds The approach could be useful in systems that need to process changing data locally, including autonomous vehicles, robots and wearable devices.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026
  • By contrast, about 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous thanks to its (slightly) more modern Vision Compute Element.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of autonomous
Adjective
  • Council members anticipate hearing evidence from an independent investigator and other witnesses, said council member LaKeisha Gantt.
    — Reed Williams, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Joe Conti, an independent researcher and physics enthusiast based in Massachusetts, is inviting eclipse observers across Iceland and Spain to capture the optical mystery on their smartphones as part of a citizen science project.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of independent
Adjective
  • And Secrets suspects that a younger, noninterventionist crowd would have boosted Vance’s numbers.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Definition of noninterventionist
Adjective
  • Anmuth highlighted that the company’s forex-neutral top-line growth accelerated to 20% in Q2 2026, the fastest in 20 quarters.
    — , CNBC, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The space is more neutral, particularly if disputes between roommates must be mediated or there are other sensitive matters, according to Max Koskoff, associate director for regional campus programs.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of neutral
Adjective
  • Russia has been able to weather Western sanctions largely by ramping up trade with nonaligned countries, particularly India and China.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • These are hedging strategies adapted to today’s more fragmented international order, while the older divide separated aligned states from nonaligned states.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Definition of nonaligned
Adjective
  • It’s been around since the Cold War era, when then leader Chiang Kai-shek became wary of an attempt on the island by the Chinese Communist Party, which claims Taiwan as part of its sovereign territory, despite never having controlled it.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Washington would almost certainly respond by tightening access to advanced chips, compute and cloud infrastructure, while building more sovereign AI capacity of its own.
    — Will Conaway, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of sovereign
Adjective
  • The manual is used not only by the program's centers, but also many unaffiliated private childcare centers across the country.
    — Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The deadline for new voters and unaffiliated voters to register by mail was July 24.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of unaffiliated

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“Hands-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hands-off. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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