automatic
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Note carefully that high-beta stocks are not an automatic bet to perform well in the first busy week of this upcoming earnings season.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A pre-El Niño reminder: Turn off your automatic watering during rainy periods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
An automatic out-of-office responder one employee at an unnamed company built with AI that turned out to cost $10,000 a day, Hsu said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“There’s no automatic cut-in of the vagus nerve,” Phil Resch said, “in an android. As there is in a human. Weren’t you taught that when they trained you? I got taught that years ago.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
While manual transmissions were once common enough to be called “standard,” in recent decades, they’ve lost some of their cost advantage over automatics, noted Bill Stokes, a product planner for Subaru.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
For learner drivers, Ms Howe said, automatics can make the test easier, as "there's just a lot less to do".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
Nearly all American rental cars are automatics, yet abroad, you will probably receive a car with a stick shift or pay more for the transmission you’re used to.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
He continued the turn in the direction the automatics had started, bringing his nose around to watch the enemy's track.
From Slingshot by Irving W. Lande
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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