How to Use automation in a Sentence

automation

noun
  • For Shimizu, the answer to the problem comes through robots, automation, and AI.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 1 Apr. 2024
  • On the first part, briefly, for 20 years of tech automation, people have predicted all kinds of jobs would go away.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • These were the employees who reset the bowling pins and rolled back the bowling balls in the days before automation.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • There’s also not a huge amount of automation by the attackers, Bilodeau says.
    WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Once automation arrived, the Coast Guard was ready to tear down the old keepers’ residence.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The hub still has Z-Wave, but that's only for automation of third-party products.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also synchronized automation in the show, with ring lights moving up and down on either side of the stage as the evening carries on.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • But automation isn’t just a showbiz concern, new polling for the Los Angeles Times shows.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The smart home and automation market is like that pretty much everywhere.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Other chains plan to speed up their use of automation, including kiosks and robots.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Red Line is the first to test automatic doors, leaving the possibility of full automation on the line later this year.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • These days, some tech entrepreneurs argue that cash aid will be needed as gig work, automation and AI threaten jobs.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The legal profession has been identified as a ripe target for A.I. automation in the past.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Luckily, there are some roles out there that are less likely for a need of automation, and therefore, worth pursuing.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Leveraging automation to take care of the peripherals would leave teams to, well, be human.
    Laxman Papineni, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • One method of automation used by CVS is mentioned in at least seven citations by the pharmacy board since July 2022.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The effects of automation are managed piecemeal, and continuing harms pushed out of sight or displaced to somewhere else.
    WIRED, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Unemployment over the last 20 years of tech automation hasn’t fully...
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • New research reveals that nearly one-quarter (23%) of U.S. workers are concerned that workplace automation will replace their job in the next five years.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In Britain, for example, there was a program called the Poor Laws, where people who were harmed by automation were given financial relief.
    WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the auto jobs disappeared because of automation.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • By the union’s count, the three automakers have closed 65 plants so far this century, due to a combination of automation, outsourcing and the loss of market share to nonunion automakers.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The company estimates that up to 30% of non-customer-facing roles could be replaced by automation within five years.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 2 May 2023
  • Here are his 5 tips for success Retail Restaurant robots are the ‘vanguard of automation,’ top analyst says.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This entire end-to-end process is a combination of AI and automation and has helped greatly boost the effectiveness of Mastercard’s ads.
    John Kell, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Both parties ended up setting a tone for how labor movements in the future could push back against encroaching automation.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Accenture modeling shows that 44% of working hours in the U.S. are in scope for automation or augmentation (pg. 11).
    Kevan Yalowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Creative work that was previously believed to be largely immune to automation now faces that very prospect.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Autonomous agents raise the prospect of automation of entire workflows, rather than discrete tasks.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Smart home automation dangles the prospect of convenience but rarely delivers.
    WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023

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