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automate

[aw-tuh-mayt] / ˈɔ təˌmeɪt /
VERB
use machines to replace human workers
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The seemingly simple task of sorting merchandise is among the many challenges bedeviling the company’s decadelong, multibillion-dollar quest to automate its warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Bayne is an inventor, with patent-pending applications for artificial intelligence tools that automate legal workflows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The “marketing engineer” is emerging as a new job title for professionals who build AI systems to automate marketing tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

AI is also helping to automate inventory tracking and improve order accuracy, executives said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Others automate the process using automatic communications scripts.

From The Online World by Odd De Presno

"We are really trying to address the staff shortage, not replace drivers," said Milo Belien, a software engineer at Futurail, a French-German start-up that automates trains.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“As AI automates more of the economy and more of society, we are handing over more and more power to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

One such company is Aurelian, which sells software that coaches 911 dispatchers and automates nonemergency calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

One utility also reported unauthorized modifications to software that automates plant operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

You get on these by sending a message to a specific e- mail address, which is often that of a computer that automates the process.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

Playing defense For homes with basements, automated sump pumps are essential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Last fall, Kroger said it would take a $2.6 billion charge to close three automated e-commerce fulfillment centers as a result of “the automated fulfillment network not meeting financial expectations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

What would also help the company is better software for automated design.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

In today’s torrential downpours, you must have an automated sump pump for the basement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then I was given a series of inoculations with an array of automated needle guns that shot me in both shoulders and both ass cheeks simultaneously.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The company makes autonomous industrial robots aimed at automating repetitive manual tasks like stacking pallets and weighing raw materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

That could involve redesigning tax structures to "make it a bit more attractive to hold on to workers than automating them," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Dean, who joined Google as its 30th employee in 1999, will be chief executive at a new public-benefit corporation called Discovery Loop that aims to accelerate technology by automating complicated, multistep science and engineering tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Investors also fear that generative AI could disrupt the country's $315-billion IT services industry by automating tasks long outsourced to India, such as customer service and app maintenance.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Instantly I begin counting a beat in my head, automating my actions.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper




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