automatic
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It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
She warned Atak that as a foreign national he was liable in principle to automatic deportation once he completed his sentence.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
When Scott filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday in the Central District of California, it triggered an automatic stay of the civil case against him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Even though an automatic thank-you email is sent to donors,” Mrs. Smith said, “it just feels more personable to take the time to send an actual letter. Feels like the least I can do.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
The pass rate for automatics last year was slightly lower than for manuals.
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
If we can get a couple of automatics and some cartridges to Denham, he’ll be safe until we can repair the big solenoid.”
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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