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automate

[aw-tuh-mayt] / ˈɔ təˌmeɪt /
VERB
use machines to replace human workers
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AI assistants can help automate tasks, prompting companies to rethink the sizes of their global workforce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Once you decide the amount of money you want to put toward this bill each month, automate payments on payday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

While bots are commonly associated with fake social media accounts that may post false, divisive and inflammatory content, they are also used to automate tasks like scanning web pages so they appear on search engines.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

With lean teams, many small-caps can adopt AI tools quickly, automate workflows, and expand capacity without proportionally growing head count.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

You can write script files to automate the online work further.

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

Amazon.com, already one of the world’s biggest robot makers, is scaling up production as it automates more of the work inside its warehouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

Software that automates price-setting—often driven by AI—can quickly turn that data into tailored pricing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

In Koreatown, the department has 17 automated litter bins and 19 metal slatted bins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

An uncomfortable truth about AI’s growing capabilities: The work that many junior white-collar workers have long done will soon be better off automated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

So far, early users of Mistral Large 4 have been using the cyber capabilities of the model to perform automated penetration testing, said Corentin Petit, the startup’s vice president of solutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The plant is highly automated, but workers still have to remove items that cannot be processed and regularly inspect waste to check what is being sent for recycling.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

I’d expected some general thank-you-for-calling-Henka-Games-for-English-press-1 automated message—the typical greeting from a corporate number.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

While the company acknowledged that AI is automating tasks, it said the roles being eliminated weren’t being replaced by AI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

However, a lack of knowledge around credit scores and automating payments landed him in heavy debt after college, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The real danger of automating our ordinary encounters isn’t that we’ll suddenly forget what human connection feels like.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Beijing has been quite clear that it sees AI as a solution to its ageing workforce, and is rapidly automating manufacturing and production.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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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