How to Use automated in a Sentence

automated

adjective
  • 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
  • The companies have been slow to act against such automated calls on their own.
    Tali Arbel, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • His automated voice was deep and mature.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The automated side of Honeywell is hard for these folks to grasp.
    Jim Cramer, Contributor, CNBC, 10 June 2026
  • As threats grow quieter and more automated, safe browsing habits matter more than ever.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • And according to recent reports, that process has become more automated than in the past.
    Craig Idlebrook, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Creator is just the latest piece of the Bay Area automated food-tech landscape.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • And that’s a great point, because automated license plate readers of some kind, license plate cameras, that has been around for a while.
    Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 July 2026
  • 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
  • For automated watering, a separate hose-end timer is added.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • People reach for these tools when markets turn turbulent, which is when automated discipline helps most and a panicked move costs most.
    Pawan Jain, The Conversation, 29 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Handwritten Notes In an automated world, handwritten notes are rare.
    Michael Tasner, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Semi-automated technology can now decide in moments whether a player has strayed offside.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Deep discovery must use automated scanners to map the full dependency structure of a legacy estate.
    Chetan Mathur, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • In fact, even when automated labor is less productive than human workers, a company may well make money by automating.
    Daron Acemoglu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • Optery offers multiple tiers of data broker management, starting with a free tier that does not include automated removal.
    Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • The affected utilities, which were not named, were temporarily blinded when automated systems went down.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Optery offers data broker management at multiple levels, starting with a free tier that does not include automated removal.
    Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • The automated targeting suite helps shorten the time between detection and engagement.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral.
    Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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