hands-off

adjective

Definition of hands-offnext
as in autonomous

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Recent Examples of hands-off During the Black Hat keynote, Sean Cairncross, the US national cyber director, took a very hands-off, conciliatory tone regarding AI, security, and privacy regulation. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026 Crawford, however, was surprisingly hands-off when Gerber and her brother, Presley, decided to pursue modeling. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026 The public is increasingly skeptical of allowing the AI industry to govern itself, which is pushing legislators to rethink their hands-off approach, even as AI money pours like Niagara Falls into elections. — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 The auto-docking and LiDAR mapping features make hands-off cleaning easy. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 20 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
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  • On the Chinese side of the border, in the autonomous region of Tibet, the deluge overwhelmed Gyirong Port, a major border crossing with Nepal that, in scenes reminiscent of a disaster movie, appears to have been completely washed away.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The pilot covered one subsystem, rather than demonstrating autonomous maintenance of an entire quantum computer.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of autonomous
Adjective
  • Meta is also promising to do a better job of verifying users' ages and has agreed to report regularly to an independent auditor.
    — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The agreement also fully exempts credits for independent film — which account for 10% of the $750 million program — from the cap.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 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
  • Express a positive sentiment, as opposed to a neutral or negative tone.
    — Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, try artisanal, handmade designs in neutral, earthy tones.
    — Sheila Kim, The Spruce, 30 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
  • When the 2008 global financial crisis triggered the eurozone crisis, the deficit countries experienced sovereign debt crises, unemployment, austerity, and prolonged stagnation that unwound the imbalances.
    — MICHAEL PETTIS, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Cosine, pitched as Britain’s first fully sovereign frontier AI model, has attracted corporate partners including BAE Systems, PwC, and Lloyds Banking Group, the FT reports.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of sovereign
Adjective
  • In a statement to WJZ, a spokesperson for property owner MCB Real Estate said the gathering began as an unaffiliated after-school youth event.
    — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • By 1909, unaffiliated schools made up more than two-fifths of all Japanese language schools.
    — H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 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 2 Sep. 2026.

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