How to Use semiautonomous in a Sentence

semiautonomous

adjective
  • The result could be semiautonomous warships that sail with smaller crews, putting fewer in harm’s way.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Tesla’s semiautonomous system is a key selling point for customers.
    — Mike Colias, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The Navajo Nation is semiautonomous, with the power to set its own time system.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • One ethnic group — the Sidama — is seeking to create a 10th semiautonomous region.
    — Simon Marks, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The best cure short of building more roadways and reducing the number of cars that drive on them, traffic experts say, is semiautonomous driving.
    — Jason Daley, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2011
  • France quelled the worst of the violence by rushing thousands of armed police to the semiautonomous territory.
    — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • An effort to overhaul the semiautonomous region’s outdated governance is seen by many in the region as a failure.
    — Erin Mendell, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • That’s why, as Marx and many others argued, capitalist classes, their parties, and their states tend to be semiautonomous.
    — Ashley Smith, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • With the wristbands, the semiautonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies.
    — Heather Murphy, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Reports about the number of people killed in the attack in the semiautonomous Puntland region varied widely.
    — Hussein Mohamed and Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 8 June 2017
  • Stricter laws already apply in the semiautonomous province of Aceh, where a form of sharia law came into effect in 2015.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • If true, that crash would be the second accident this year that has occurred when a Tesla was operating in the semiautonomous driving mode.
    — Peter Holley, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • Hong Kong’s semiautonomous status within China means that Chinese citizens need visas to live and work in the city.
    — Joy Dong, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • For the past three decades, semiautonomous Hong Kong has been the only place on Chinese soil allowed to openly hold a mass memorial.
    — Time, 4 June 2020
  • Ramzan Kadyrov is the leader of the Chechen Republic, which is a semiautonomous part of Russia.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In the meantime, the semiautonomous Palestinian government is set to hold its first elections in 15 years in late May.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • As senior writer Jack Stewart reports, the crash comes amidst a wider debate about the role of humans in semiautonomous vehicles.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Much of it comes from Asia, but also Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania.
    — Karen J. Coates, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2018
  • There appeared to be no link, though the two events highlighted the widening rift between mainland China and semiautonomous Hong Kong.
    — Kelvin Chan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Under a deal made during the British handover of its former colony, the city was supposed to maintain its semiautonomous rule until 2047.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • China and the semiautonomous city of Hong Kong together received 42% of Japan’s maritime exports last year.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The city, a semiautonomous Chinese territory since the British handed back its former colony in 1997, played by its own set of rules.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Eyewitnesses said that the fire in northern Iraq’s Sharya camp, in the semiautonomous Kurdish region, ripped through the tents at frightening speed.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • The command did manage to achieve a recent success in the semiautonomous region of Puntland, in northern Somalia, by trying to do the opposite.
    — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 3 May 2017
  • Hong Kong, a semiautonomous region of China has seen 105 cases of the disease, and two deaths according to official figures.
    — Mark Hanrahan, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The death from the outbreak was the first in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory, and the second outside mainland China.
    — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Days earlier—following the death of the vice president of the semiautonomous island of Zanzibar from Covid-19—Mr.
    — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Under terms of its 1997 handover from Britain, Hong Kong is a semiautonomous territory of China.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tensions over the tanker began on July 4, when the vessel was seized by British marines and port officials in Gibraltar, a semiautonomous British territory.
    — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Gambling revenue in the Chinese semiautonomous city of Macau fell 81% from a year earlier during the 12 months ending in February.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021

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