by machine

phrase

: with a machine
The mail used to be sorted by hand but is sorted now by machine.

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Wash towels either by machine or by hand before laundry stripping to get rid of dirt. Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026 His installations, projected across walls and ceilings, envelop viewers in constantly shifting landscapes generated by machine learning systems trained on vast image libraries. Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026 But Georgia’s results were exhaustively verified by machine and manual recounts, a signature audit, and multiple court cases and investigations. State Rep. Matt Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026 An image from a single collision at the LHC shows an unusually complex spray of particles, flagged as anomalous by machine learning algorithms. IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for by machine

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“By machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20machine. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

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