automatic
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Mississippi has no automatic recount procedure, although candidates can seek court intervention.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Loadings have also increased, although most vessels have switched off their automatic identification systems, making shipments harder to track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The truck's licence plate was then tracked through automatic plate-reader technology, travelling through Missouri, where local authorities were dispatched to follow.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The Lateral Signalling Block is a back-up system used when the automatic signalling or data transmission system fails.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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
Attempts to override the automatics were unsuccessful, and while I was attempting to clear the trouble, the captain called again, saying that the request was false, and asking why I had turned the radiators on.
From Indirection by Kelly Freas
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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