automatic
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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
Ships normally broadcast their identity, position, speed and direction through AIS transponders, a radio-based automatic identification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
It said this would help improve automatic subtitles on Twitch streams as well as Amazon videos.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
As for kicking, Cameron Dicker is typically automatic on extra points, but he missed one after linebacker Junior Colson scored on an interception return in the third quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
If each one of those soldiers had at least one M-16 assault rifle, there were about twenty thousand automatic rifles in the city.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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
Sue Howe, the owner of Sue's Driving School in Swindon, told the BBC that automatics are "the way forward" as the car industry moves towards EVs.
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
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
And the men—Shad Wells, Jesse Brown, they all carry automatics.
From The Vagrant Duke by George Gibbs
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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