How to Use automated in a Sentence
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One way to spot a bot is if an account tweets round the clock or if the replies feel automated.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 May 2022
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The companies have been slow to act against such automated calls on their own.
—Tali Arbel, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
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His automated voice was deep and mature.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
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The automated side of Honeywell is hard for these folks to grasp.
—Jim Cramer, Contributor, CNBC, 10 June 2026
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As threats grow quieter and more automated, safe browsing habits matter more than ever.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
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And according to recent reports, that process has become more automated than in the past.
—Craig Idlebrook, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
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Creator is just the latest piece of the Bay Area automated food-tech landscape.
—Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
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To keep automated cars, buses, and trucks safe, the precise time that these vehicles operate is of the essence.
—Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
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For automated watering, a separate hose-end timer is added.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
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The flash crashes of the past decade, when automated trading sent prices haywire in minutes, were a warning about machines moving faster than anyone could step in.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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Smart switches, automated zones, and apps can ensure that homeowners can schedule lights to dim or turn off, rather than relying on memory.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
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On one hand, of course, this is the next step on an inevitable escalator to the level of hyper-personalized automated content.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Nov. 2025
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Semi-automated technology can now decide in moments whether a player has strayed offside.
—Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
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Deep discovery must use automated scanners to map the full dependency structure of a legacy estate.
—Chetan Mathur, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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There’s also a semi-automated offside alert that shows in high-res down almost to the individual blade of grass where a player was out of position.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 July 2026
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Cell phones, automated cameras, more airplane flights and more people living in rural areas have reduced their effectiveness.
—Paul Rogers, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
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When automated agents deal with anything tied to money, liability or brand reputation, the stakes are high and the consequences can be lasting.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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The automated targeting suite helps shorten the time between detection and engagement.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
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Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
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Reducing wind energy costs The system uses a small number of unique parts that can be mass-produced at lower cost, enabling fast, automated scaling.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
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The new speed camera program is the result of a 2023 state law that authorized six cities to conduct five-year pilots of the automated camera systems.
—Kate Talerico, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
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As the Daily Journal has reported, automated speech recognition does not perform equally well across all groups of speakers.
—K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 17 July 2026
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And Kappel, even with all of his quirks, has demonstrated grit by building one of the largest and most automated payroll companies in the USA.
—Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
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The limits will be largely enforced by the city’s school zone speed cameras, roughly 2,400 of which are authorized to issue automated tickets.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
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For Nio, this surge underlines the value of its fast, automated swap system, capable of changing a depleted battery in under three minutes.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
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These stops and starts are designed to demonstrate that the rocket’s systems are performing as expected during the final part of the countdown, when automated systems take over control of the booster.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
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The introduction of semi-automated technology has not made much difference, as there is still a protocol to follow that can take longer than the goal celebrations and spark doubt in the stands.
—Graham Scott, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
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Every quarter that a security team operates on a manual hunting cycle while adversaries run automated campaigns, the gap widens.
—Aqsa Taylor, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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Crea provides intuitive tools, automated optimization, and a wide range of working modes to balance maximum quality with maximum speed.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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However, semi-automated methods still generate noisy labels, often requiring human oversight that adds both time and expense.
—Dr. Jason Corso, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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