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Examples of auto in a Sentence
Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
How to Buy and Maintain a Car How to Buy or Lease a New Car
How to Buy a Used Car
How to Repair, Maintain, and Care for Your Car
Warranty and Maintenance Coverage
Lotus doesn't provide spectacular coverage compared with other auto manufacturers.
—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
China’s vehicle sales rose in August as Beijing’s measures to boost auto consumption took effect and transportation demand rose during the summer holiday.
—Bingyan Wang, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023
The change will not affect any existing employees and there will be exceptions, such as those who work in the deli, bakery, auto care departments or other areas that require specific skills.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2023
Chinese autos are roughly 30% cheaper than their European and US equivalents, according to research firm Jato Dynamics.
—Laura He, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
Before China’s auto export boom, only four a year were being ordered, said Daniel Nash, head of vehicle carriers at VesselsValue, a London shipping data firm.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
Williamson faces multiple charges, including auto theft, intimidation, armed robbery, battery resulting in bodily injury, and murder.
—The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
The Good Housekeeping Institute reviews cars from SUVs to cars for parents as well as an array of auto products like windshield wiper blades and winter tires.
—Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2023
Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
So which makes the best semi-auto shotgun?
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Jan. 2021
One of the few semi-auto 17 WSM rifles is the Franklin armory F17-L.
—Richard Mann, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2023
Also: a slick semi-auto espresso machine for $4,700 and a large neon sign depicting the blue Twitter bird logo — yours for about $23,000.
—Adela Suliman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
Also: a slick semi-auto espresso machine for $4,700, and a large neon electrical sign depicting the ubiquitous blue Twitter bird logo — yours for about $23,000.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2023
The Mark IV solved the biggest issue many shooters had with Ruger’s classic Mark II semi-auto, with its one-button takedown system.
—Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 18 Sep. 2020
He also is suspected of firing a gun in New Britain — again, no one was hurt — and three times fleeing police who were on a special anti-auto theft detail in Newington.
—Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 11 Jan. 2022
The man also described the gun that was pointed at him as a dull silver semi-auto, possibly a Sig-Sauer brand gun, documents say.
—oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2021
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Word History
Noun
by shortening
Adjective
by shortening
Combining form
borrowed from Greek, combining form of autós "self, the same" (also as third person pronoun), of uncertain origin
Note: For autós R. Beekes posits as the Indo-European forerunner *h2eu̯- "again" + *to- "that" (see that entry 1); *h2eu̯- alone is the source of Greek aû "again, another time, in turn, next" (Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009). G.E. Dunkel, who accepts Indo-European *a as a vowel and does not believe that all words must begin with a consonant, subsumes the first element of autós under *au̯- "away, off" (*au̯-tó- would hence originally have been a deictic, "the one over there") and subsumes Greek aû under *h2u-, by-form of *h2o- "with it, at it, and, also" (Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme, Heidelberg, 2014). Older etymological proposals (as a link between au- in autós and Sanskrit ásuḥ "life") are summarized by E. Schwyzer in Griechische Grammatik (Munich, 1990 [1938]), pp. 613-14.
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“Auto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auto. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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