automatic
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Sarina Wiegman's side were outclassed in Majorca, losing 4-0 to miss out on automatic qualification for the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Note carefully that high-beta stocks are not an automatic bet to perform well in the first busy week of this upcoming earnings season.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A pre-El Niño reminder: Turn off your automatic watering during rainy periods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
An automatic out-of-office responder one employee at an unnamed company built with AI that turned out to cost $10,000 a day, Hsu said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
I stuck my lunch back in my school bag and headed for the bathroom, where I was grateful to find automatic water and soap dispensers.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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
It ran around the dim upthrusting bulk of a weather-observation tower which was turned over to its automatics for the night and there was no one else to be seen.
From The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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