automatic
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Military plans like Grynkewich’s aim to make deep-strike attacks essentially automatic following a Russian military attack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The failure of an automatic safety system halted all trains on a 63-kilometre stretch of track, but a control centre nonetheless authorised the Renfe service to resume its journey.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Widely seen as favourites for automatic promotion, the London side are currently eighth in the table, six points behind leaders Middlesbrough.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
That is an automatic 22% reduction for every beneficiary, including those who live entirely on Social Security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
A Kawasaki four by four, powered by a 400cc engine with automatic transmission.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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
He has at least a half dozen pistols and automatics.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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