How to Use automate in a Sentence

automate

verb

• The company recently automated its filing process.
• When companies automate, employees lose jobs.
• 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
• The crisis is forcing many ad agencies to find ways to automate more.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Some power users have written scripts to automate parts of the design process.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Its goal is to automate as much as possible, while keeping a human in the loop.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
• The whole goal of writing software is to automate something.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 18 Apr. 2021
• In recent years, scientists have sped up the process by automating some steps.
  — Edd Gent, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2020
• There are certain things like leave requests or changing a home address—automate the hell out of it.
  — Zach Dubin, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• The Times has no plans to automate the audio article system, said Ms. Preiss.
  — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Airlines will automate, or de-staff, the pre-flight process as much as possible.
  — Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2020
• 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
• That includes tariff rates; Gaia’s Tariff Discovery tool automates the process behind determining the active tariff rate to import goods into a client’s country of interest.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 21 Feb. 2025
• Ramp is using artificial intelligence to automate a lot of its technology, Glyman said.
  — Kate Rooney, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025