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automatic pilot


automatic pilot

noun

Definition of AUTOMATIC PILOT

1
: autopilot 1
2
: a state or condition in which activity or behavior is regulated automatically in a predetermined or instinctive manner <would go on automatic pilot and repeat all his standard denunciations — G. J. Church>

First Known Use of AUTOMATIC PILOT

1916

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