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automatic

[aw-tuh-mat-ik] / ˌɔ təˈmæt ɪk /




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Now, some of those settings will also be automatic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Debretts, an etiquette consultancy, says a good automatic reply should be polite and concise, give a specific return date, and provide another point of contact if appropriate.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Spectrum will be required to provide automatic bill credits for customers for qualifying service outages that last at least two hours.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed a letter on Tuesday contesting the automatic stay and maintaining that the court’s emergency pause is still in effect.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Or he’d ask who had a pencil, and then hand out a dozen automatic ones.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

In 2012/13, 23.2% of learners taking tests in automatics were men.

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

That’s despite the fact that automatics left manuals in their dust years ago.

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2021

You hastened the equipment of American soldiers with the automatics they so much needed and helped them to French ordnance stores generously.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns




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