automatic
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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
They said because the listing by Which? was not "live" on its site across the two months it was present, "some of our automatic fraud controls were not triggered to completely remove the closed listing".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Treasury Department’s automatic enrollment will be a “significant expansion” in the number of kids with these accounts, said Melissa Elbert, a partner at the consulting firm Aon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
It measures our second level of attitude, our racial attitude on an unconscious level—the immediate, automatic associations that tumble out before we’ve even had time to think.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
He had made no reference to their automatics.
From The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure by Gerald Breckenridge
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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