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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

He had noticed this alley before, when coming along the river towards the university—a quick glance, an almost automatic registering of possibility—and he’d seen that it was open at the other end.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

That’s despite the fact that automatics left manuals in their dust years ago.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

And the men—Shad Wells, Jesse Brown, they all carry automatics.

From The Vagrant Duke by George Gibbs