How to Use autofill in a Sentence
autofill
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The new keyboard autofill options are very nice, as is the screen recorder.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2020
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Apple's answer to this is the ability to autofill fields the tablet will recognize to quickly update.
—Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
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Instead, the autofill function kicks in and requests the login credentials in question.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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Incognito mode does have handy uses like keeping certain searches out of your autofill and suggestions.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2020
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Citizen Lab found that in tests late last year, Bing wouldn’t surface autofill suggestions for search terms of the names of Chinese political dissidents and party leaders.
—Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 19 May 2022
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The launch of Wallet Onboard comes on the heels of the release of two new identity verification features last week: autofill and behavior analytics.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2022
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Some ways to solve this issue include leveraging autofill capabilities, reducing the steps needed to get to the checkout, and asking only for ‘bare bones’ data.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
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Some evidence comes from code, such as the recently defunct website shadowban.eu, which let Twitter users determine whether their replies were being hidden or their handles were appearing in searches and search autofill.
—Gabriel Nicholas, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
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Bing’s autofill system, which offers guesses on what users are searching for after a few keystrokes, often fell silent in connection to names the Chinese government deems sensitive, Citizen Lab said in the report Thursday.
—Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 19 May 2022
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There are new one-time permission approvals for the microphone, camera, and location, new emojis, more work toward modularity, and easier autofill.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2020
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Six of the most popular password managers have been called out by security researchers who uncovered a major vulnerability that impacts the Android autofill function.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
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Turner's attorney, Melissa Freeman, argued in the criminal case that the discrepancies were clerical errors caused by a misunderstanding or by an autofill system for paperwork.
—Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
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