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
There is simply a small patch of negative space where something automatic used to happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The autonomic nervous system helps regulate many automatic functions in the body, including digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
On automatic pilot I got dressed and let Tilly out.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
It is a decision that could affect the rest of their driving lives - pass your test in an automatic and you will forever be boxed into only driving automatics - or indeed electric vehicles.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
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
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
Outside of your automatic and my dynol pistol, there are two other dynols and not more than a dozen automatics.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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