automatic
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She had to set up automatic sprinklers to keep the outdoor plants alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
If approved, it will be expressly noted in the regulations that an automatic one-match ban for a red card cannot be suspended.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The cuts will be automatic unless Congress acts to strengthen the system.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
There is simply a small patch of negative space where something automatic used to happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
I swallowed the automatic “thank you” that formed in my throat and left the shop without another word.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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
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
The bronze statue, erected in 2017 on one of Moscow’s busiest thoroughfares, depicts General Kalashnikov cradling one of his automatics, looking from a distance like an aging heavy metal guitarist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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