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Recent Examples of hands-off
Samui Elephant Sanctuary Samui Elephant Sanctuary offers an ethical, hands-off alternative to traditional elephant tourism and is home to seven senior female Asian elephants—each rescued from logging camps or exploitative attractions.
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Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Even with President Donald Trump’s hands-off approach to diplomacy with the Kremlin, Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, sees the return of U.S. businesses to Russia as a key bargaining chip.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2025
Grief maintained that his agency had no ability to regulate couriers, but his approach was hardly hands-off.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 19 June 2025
Excels at preparing large amounts of food in a hands-off way.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2025
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Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Even with President Donald Trump’s hands-off approach to diplomacy with the Kremlin, Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, sees the return of U.S. businesses to Russia as a key bargaining chip.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2025
Grief maintained that his agency had no ability to regulate couriers, but his approach was hardly hands-off.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 19 June 2025
Excels at preparing large amounts of food in a hands-off way.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hands-off
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New Shepard is an autonomous, fully reusable vehicle that consists of a first-stage booster and a crew capsule.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
20 June 2025
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The unit has more than 50 corporate customers, including the autonomous vehicle company Aurora and Niantic, the creator of Pokemon Go that recently ditched the games business to pivot to enterprise AI.—
Richard Nieva,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The original plan to resolve this—to spin out OpenAI into an independent, for-profit company—was scrapped in May and replaced with a new approach, which will turn OpenAI’s for-profit group into a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
20 June 2025
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Read More Stephanie is an arts and culture journalist and independent dress historian based in New York City.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
20 June 2025
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While the system empowers users to suggest and execute new projects, arbiters act as neutral mediators in any disputes that arise.—
Saro McKenna,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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That's something that's a challenging question to ask because, more so than some other quantum computing technologies, neutral atom computing is dependent on something that's not made by the people who build the computers: lasers.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
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This conflict between the two great powers will create opportunities, most importantly business opportunities, for neutral nonaligned countries.—
Ray Dalio,
TIME,
20 Nov. 2024
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With its diminished economic and cultural appeal hampering its ability to forge new partnerships, the United States risks allowing its adversaries to deepen their ties to nonaligned countries in ways that harm U.S. interests.—
Roger W. Ferguson,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Jan. 2025
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This reminds me that most of my conversations at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos were spent discussing countries’ needs for a disconnected, sovereign AI cloud.—
Patrick Moorhead,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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That, potentially, is as much of a weakness, longer term, as a shortage of sovereign AI computing infrastructure.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
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While some research has found an association between mortality and longer naps, the new research revealed a new connection between death risk and when naps occurred during the day, Neal Walia, MD, a sleep specialist at UCLA Health unaffiliated with this research, told Health.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
19 June 2025
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Religiously unaffiliated people are now the third largest group behind Christians and Muslims, with 24.2% identifying as such.—
Fiona André,
NPR,
10 June 2025
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“Hands-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hands-off. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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