Thesaurus results for AUTO

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 Taking a pulse of the auto industry a few years ago would have resulted in most people thinking, at least for a hot minute, that the immediate future was going to be electric with a quick and hard shift away from fossil fuels. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 9 July 2026 The information is also gathered from auto insurance claims data. — Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026 Lewis says food, clothing, auto parts, and more do not belong in the dishwasher, even if your neighbor swears by the dishwasher for cleaning everything and anything under the sun. — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 July 2026 Both spent the debate speaking the familiar language of consensus favored by the Mackinac crowd—calling for bipartisan legislation that benefits Michigan’s auto and manufacturing industries, and touting their own records and electability. — Nik Popli, Time, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for auto

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Outside, the cops, led by a dry sinister officer in a long black leather coat, order him to get on the ground, face down; Sophia comes out of the house and is placed in the back of a car, staring at all this through the glass.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2026
The governor’s September 2020 order directed the state to require all new cars and passenger trucks sold in the state after 2035 be zero-emission vehicles.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026

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The update removes cattle hides, skins and leather from the scope of regulation, along with re-treaded tires, soybeans for sowing, articles of vulcanized rubber, conveyor and transmission belts, and aircraft and automobile seats.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 16 July 2026
The golfer has been involved in four incidents involving automobiles since 2009, causing personal and professional harm.

— Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 July 2026

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Realta plans to build its prototype magnetic mirror fusion machine, called Hammir, at the facility and expects to create more than 600 technical and non-technical jobs.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
After Bonse applied machine learning algorithms to clean the image up, the speck remained.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 July 2026

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