automatic
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Cheers to American’s new automatic seat mover feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
This new book argues that the most successful people don’t just grind harder; they reshape their circumstances to make success feel automatic.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
For example, giving an automatic admission to the top 5% of the students in all of a big city’s high schools or its middle schools could achieve greater racial and ethnic diversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Automatic enrollment has helped more workers get into the plans, and subsequent automatic increases in the percentage of earnings they save help keep them on track.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The next time we saw him, he was in uniform, assigned to motion study training in assembling and disassembling the Lewis machine gun and other automatic weapons.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
The pass rate for automatics last year was slightly lower than for manuals.
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
Really it is no wonder that the several Allied troop barracks were always guarded by machine guns and automatics.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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