as in automatic
designed to replace or decrease human labor and especially physical labor an automated facility in which you can get your car washed without having encountered a single human being

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Recent Examples of automated The bottom line: Why personal data removal services win the privacy battle After testing both manual opt-outs and automated services, using a personal data removal service emerges as the clear solution for reclaiming your data. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025 Whenever the neuron gets the wrong answer, an automated algorithm tweaks the neuron’s parameters slightly, in a direction that moves the boundary closer to the incorrect point. Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025 Enhancing interactions: Generative AI models can support automated interactions, including personalized responses to customer complaints. Forrester, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 But this month, the privacy board proposed substantially narrower privacy regulations, including deleting specific protections — like the example above — surrounding criminal justice, education, essential goods like food and employment matters if they were made by automated decisions. Justin Kloczko, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for automated
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  • Healthcare providers can offer automatic payment plans as an alternative to allowing unpaid invoices to accumulate and sending patients to collections.
    Samad Syed, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Every reliever except Yuki Matsui has been complicit, though Jeremiah Estrada’s unearned run came after the automatic runner was placed on second in the 10th inning on Wednesday.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
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  • Through robotic production line, Losanje manages to transform finished textile products — from clothing to bedsheets and curtains, among other goods — into ready-to-reuse fabrics.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 16 May 2025
  • People with autism may unintentionally use monotonous, robotic speech that sounds abnormal or disinterested to others.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 14 May 2025

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“Automated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/automated. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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