automatic
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BBC Sport has been told that there is no automatic mechanism to remove City from a European competition they qualify for on sporting merit.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
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
“The spell book shows you how to create automatic illusions, but you can also paint them manually too.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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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
The bronze statue, erected in 2017 on one of Moscow’s busiest thoroughfares, depicts General Kalashnikov cradling one of his automatics, looking from a distance like an aging heavy metal guitarist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
For temporary periods the automatics would handle the gravity-shifters.
From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings
Vocabulary lists containing automatic
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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