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
"You can imagine the dilemma this throws AI into," says François Yvon, a research director specialised in automatic translation with the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Alexander disease can interfere with movement, thinking, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The cuts will be automatic unless Congress acts to strengthen the system.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
If they were normal Noisy people, it wouldn’t matter how far back on the trail I was, we could all talk together and nobody’d have no automatic secrets.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
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
For temporary periods the automatics would handle the gravity-shifters.
From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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