by machine

idiom

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

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Balls that are stitched by machine are more prone to imperfections and can cause the ball to not inflate as well. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025 The pair tested their approach on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI), an unbeaten visual benchmark created in 2019 by machine learning researcher François Chollet to test AI systems' abstract reasoning skills. Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025 Just as the operating system translates human-friendly computer programs into instructions executed by machine hardware, LLMs are a bridge between human language and the information that machines process. Jared Dunnmon, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2025 Like so many other products influenced by machine learning, Spotify’s playlists can’t generate something new—say, a wholly fresh and unheard sound—for its users. Brad Shoup, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025 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 29 Apr. 2025.

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