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automatic

adjective as in done or made by machine

adjective as in occurring as natural consequence

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At this point, he isn’t even an automatic starter.

He said the boats went “dead in the water” as an automatic fail-safe, which prevented them from causing damage or injury.

It includes some of our must-have tech, such as automatic emergency braking and steering, adaptive cruise control with lane centering, and automatic high beams.

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In future, such cases would be recorded separately and trigger an automatic life sentence, meant as a deterrent.

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That would mean automatic qualification for the last 16.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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