How to Use automate in a Sentence

automate

verb
  • The company recently automated its filing process.
  • When companies automate, employees lose jobs.
  • But those places are also some of the ones most apt to face issues as A.I. gets better and can automate jobs, according to the labor economists’ study.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • These results don’t mean that current AI systems can automate AI research and development.
    Tharin Pillay, TIME, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Now a project called H-unique is looking to automate the process.
    Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2021
  • Utah passed a law to automate record clearance in 2019.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 19 June 2024
  • Then, Toxnot culls that data into a report to automate the process for the next time a part is in question.
    Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2022
  • To keep pace, companies either have to automate more of the process or pay for the labor and pass along the cost to consumers.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The team then explored automating the process, which came with its own challenges.
    Byshefali Malhotra, science.org, 2 May 2023
  • In 2019, a team led by Clarke’s coauthor, Peter Fretwell, tried to automate this process.
    Claudia Geib, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But Airbus has devised a way to automate that risky business at the push of a button.
    Rob Verger and Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
  • More advanced concepts are in the works to automate the entire kitchen for fine dining.
    Patrick Lin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But by some restaurant owners and staff, they aren’t seen simply as a way to automate the jobs of front of house workers.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Lum says that one of the biggest ironies is that we are urged to automate investing and saving.
    Hal M. Bundrick, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • These days there is software that can automate all of your backup tasks.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Either way, the attacks were so successful -- and so rapid -- that the hackers appear to have found a way to automate the process.
    Jordan Robertson, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Businesses should encrypt all of their data all of the time and automate this process.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • The whole goal of writing software is to automate something.
    Eben Shapiro, Time, 18 Apr. 2021
  • There are certain things like leave requests or changing a home address—automate the hell out of it.
    Zach Dubin, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Sit down with your teams and brainstorm ways to automate as much as possible.
    Jethro Hopkins, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • Restaurants that stay will automate more jobs and charge higher prices.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Esicoo Smart Plug Want to automate some of the older, dumb devices in your home?
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 10 June 2021
  • Is the goal to automate the legal profession and disrupt how lawyers do business?
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • More advanced concepts are in the works to automate the entirekitchen for fine dining.
    Patrick Lin, Professor Of Philosophy, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • While any smart shade can be automated to open and close at set times, some can adjust to close at sunset and open at sunrise.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
  • So, right now what the Clean Slate Initiative is, our mission is to automate record clearance.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Some tasks may be automated, but the core role will remain intact.
    Winston Tang, Fortune, 30 July 2024
  • There are tasks within your jobs that will get automated, simplified, and will be better to do, and faster to do.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 11 May 2024
  • At every step of the way, the IDF has stressed the place of human beings in the process to review the final conclusions – nothing is automated.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Is there a new piece of technology that can automate the execution of the task?
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021

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