automatic
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“You just have to have an automatic filter,” says Shannon Leiro, who is part of the wave of millennials moving into leadership roles with evolving standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
One change is an automatic nighttime block that locks teenagers out of Facebook and Instagram between midnight and 6:00 am local time.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Exceptions are not necessarily automatic, even for a spouse or a minor child, and they can be especially difficult to get for a caregiver child.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
It said this would help improve automatic subtitles on Twitch streams as well as Amazon videos.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Now I can see that at each ruined desalination machine stands a police officer in riot gear with an automatic rifle, warning people to keep away—as if there’s still something to protect.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
The rat-king then graciously draped the cartridge-belt and holstered automatics around the shoulders of the metal-collared leader who had captured Powell.
From Devil Crystals of Arret by Hal K. Wells
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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