by machine

idiom

: with a machine
The mail used to be sorted by hand but is sorted now by machine.

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The two-and-a-half-minute look at the second season sees Owen in several precarious positions (similar to season one), including getting in a fight at a Korean club in which he seemingly gets captured, getting arrested at another point, being shot at by machine guns, and jumping off a yacht. Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025 Police and experts say the increase, while still only a small portion of gunshots in the city, is driven by machine gun conversion devices, more commonly known as switches. David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024 That makes building these systems costly and complicated, inhibiting mass implementation of new technologies – including those powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. David Prosser, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 Then, in 2013, Monsanto (since subsumed into Bayer) paid nearly $1 billion for Climate Corporation, a startup specializing in weather prediction powered by machine learning. Stephen Robert Miller, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for by machine 

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“By machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20machine. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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