automatic
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Samuel's new ranking would secure automatic qualification for next January's Australian Open, completing the set of major appearances a year after making his top-250 debut.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Knightsbridge wins the Pacific Classic at Del Mar, holding off Original Sin and Full Serrano to earn an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Planted in April, they look vigorous despite no automatic irrigation, as do other flowers such as daisy-like echinaceas from US prairies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
The perimeter of the aquatics center is now guarded by soldiers with automatic rifles.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
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
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
She saw with relief that they were regulation army automatics, with whose use she was familiar from much target practise with Seaton.
From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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