automatic
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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems enable automatic braking, adaptive cruise control and blind spot monitoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Mississippi has no automatic recount procedure, although candidates can seek court intervention.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
A third company - French cyber-defence firm Sekoia - also noticed scanning activity prior to the second wave of cyber-attacks, but said it could have been automatic scanning without malicious intent.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The failure of an automatic safety system halted all trains on a 63-kilometre stretch of track, but a control centre nonetheless authorised the Renfe service to resume its journey.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
I stuck my lunch back in my school bag and headed for the bathroom, where I was grateful to find automatic water and soap dispensers.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
It is a decision that could affect the rest of their driving lives - pass your test in an automatic and you will forever be boxed into only driving automatics - or indeed electric vehicles.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
Persaud says many of his students hope to rent a car overseas, where automatics are sometimes harder to come by, or have significant others who own stick shifts but lack “the patience to teach them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
However, the delay doesn’t change the outcome: The CFP will shift the access format from six automatic qualifiers and six at-large bids to five automatics and seven at-larges.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
That’s despite the fact that automatics left manuals in their dust years ago.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
It ran around the dim upthrusting bulk of a weather-observation tower which was turned over to its automatics for the night and there was no one else to be seen.
From The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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