Volition in a sentence as a noun

As if phones had a volition of their own.

At this point, the google immune system geared up to encourage me to leave of my own volition.

I'm shocked how many people on HN seem to think that customer service reps act on their own volition.

A large boulder has no agency or volition, but landslides still **** people.

They then decided out of their own volition to share their photo online, an act that takes less than 1 minute of their time.

The word "want" is frequently used in science to refer to the tendency of a system to act a certain way. It isn't meant to imply volition!

For something to **** me that something does not need to have agency or volition, it simply has to cause my death.

Zero; a firearm has neither agency nor volition.

No, but there are a surprisingly high number of people who go out and read research studies and long-form articles of their own volition.

The story of post-"discovery" North-America is the volition of human rights - this is nothing new.

The only majors that people graduate with are those that seem to have a lot of jobs and "prestige in society", often due to peer and parental pressure more than their own volition.

1. to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.

There seems to be a serious delusion that any engineer worth a damn will move to SV of their own volition, so the only reason to look outside is to try to snatch the top talent from the top schools elsewhere.

I luckily picked up a lot of the skills on my own volition, but already I choose to pay someone else to replace my radiator when I could do it myself, even though I am yet unencumbered by family duties.

You are claiming that the president and vice-precident of Bolivia turned their plane around of their own volition and then fabricated a search by Austrian officials in order to create an international diplomatic scandal.

Volition definitions

noun

the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith

See also: will

noun

the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition"

See also: willing