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Recent Examples of hands-off
Those local regulations are numerous, at least compared to the light-touch, or even hands-off, approach taken to AI in the US and UK at present.
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Andrew Williams, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2024
Luckily, a more hands-off approach tends to work well for people.
—Cheyenne Devon, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
This signals a more a hands-off approach, which should help allay private-sector worries about cumbersome guardrails.
—Colin Demarest, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Progressives’ appointment success took on particular importance because Biden took a hands-off approach to economic policy.
—Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Williams, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2024
Luckily, a more hands-off approach tends to work well for people.
—Cheyenne Devon, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
This signals a more a hands-off approach, which should help allay private-sector worries about cumbersome guardrails.
—Colin Demarest, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Progressives’ appointment success took on particular importance because Biden took a hands-off approach to economic policy.
—Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hands-off
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However, Tesla plans to start fully autonomous, unsupervised Full Self-Driving in Texas and California next year for its Model 3 and Model Y EVs.Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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Tesla has staked its financial future on a pivot to autonomous robotaxis, a risky pursuit facing serious regulatory hurdles.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Four years later, the Coastal Act established the commission as an independent and permanent agency with the power to review construction and other activities in the coastal zone, which extends from high tide to as much as five miles inland.Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has maintained a neutral stance regarding the U.S. presidential candidates.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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TikTok itself has maintained a neutral stance without voicing support for either candidate.Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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This battle between anti-Western states and nonaligned ones will shape the future of BRICS—with important consequences for the global order itself.Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
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Despite the growing divergence between the explicitly anti-Western camp in the BRICS and the nonaligned camp, all members still agree on a number of fundamental issues that explain why the grouping has become vital to its members.Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
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Since then, Ivanka Trump’s husband and former senior Trump advisor has raised $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion sovereign wealth fund and more than $400 million in investments from wealth funds in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The firm is backed by GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 5 Nov. 2024
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Comparably, Democrats outperformed their statewide turnout in 10 of those counties, and unaffiliated voters outperformed their statewide turnout in 11.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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While the state’s largest voting bloc from more than 7.7 million registrations is nearly 38% unaffiliated, the leans are estimated to put only about 10% in true independent status.Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Hands-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hands-off. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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