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auto

noun

ˈȯ-(ˌ)tō

Definition of auto

as in car

a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels the auto gave people a level of mobility that they had never known before

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Recent Examples of auto Anker says this is an active-deterrence camera with an auto-tracking light, 180-degree dual-radar detection, and 4K resolution. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2026 The triumph of vroom-vroom auto racing over the quieter pleasures of art viewing was temporary but telling. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026 Bond yields set interest rates across the economy, and a steep rise in yields can raise the cost of mortgages, auto loans and student borrowing, making life less affordable. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 That disturbs Masters, an auto mechanic who moved out of the mobile home park before the 2021 floods. — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for auto

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When the sequence was complete, the roof had disappeared into the rear of the car, turning this enormous Cadillac into an open-top grand tourer.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
But in other cases, cameras may be pointed toward a park that was used as an example in the demonstration, and not toward cars.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The other option, pushing the Super Bowl back a week, was initially rejected because New Orleans, the host city, had booked an automobile dealers’ convention that had gobbled up most of the desirable hotel rooms.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Bugatti and Ferrari are doing just fine selling seven-figure automobiles.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of automobile

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Its growing fleets of electric motorcycles and buses have been less exposed to the fuel-price shock than peers elsewhere on the continent, and have seen demand rise.

— Nana Menya Ayensu, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Every window of every building the bus crawled past opened a severe yearning in me, as though my life here had become abstract or theoretical.

— Hisham Matar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

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Fault-tolerant machines require extensive error correction, which adds more hardware and control requirements.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Over time, as the human side of the evolving machine-flesh dyad matured, WHEEP-3 shifted its attention to the silicon partner, offering trenchant critiques of the inadequacies of machine learning.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

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