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
The cuts will be automatic unless Congress acts to strengthen the system.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
BBC Sport has been told that there is no automatic mechanism to remove City from a European competition they qualify for on sporting merit.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
There is simply a small patch of negative space where something automatic used to happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Normally, playing without a queen is crippling, almost tantamount to an automatic loss.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
Sue Howe, the owner of Sue's Driving School in Swindon, told the BBC that automatics are "the way forward" as the car industry moves towards EVs.
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
There were also two smaller automatics, which, he supposed, had been intended for Agnes' use.
From The Pygmy Planet by Jack Williamson
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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