How to Use automated in a Sentence

automated

adjective
  • Jetblack is powered by automated bots and real live humans who’ll do their best to fulfill your requests.
    Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 1 June 2018
  • These automated processes could benefit other realms of science, too.
    Sophia Chen, WIRED, 23 May 2018
  • As drones become more automated and easier to operate, some would-be customers are instead buying their own aerial robots to fly by themselves.
    Thomas Black, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • But brewers often need an automated way to ensure product quality, and a research team in Australia has developed a cheap method to help them.
    Matthew Hutson, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
  • Facebook eventually fired the editors on the trending team, replacing them with an automated process.
    Hamza Shaban, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • The automated assembly system disperses a set amount of each ingredient in an order.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The facility is one of the most automated newspaper printing facilities in the world.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
  • But difficulties with a highly automated production line mean that just over 2,000 are rolling out of the factory each week.
    The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • The companies are working on identifying sites for three automated distribution centers this year and may open as many as 20 within three years.
    Bloomberg, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • One way to spot a bot is if an account tweets round the clock or if the replies feel automated.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 May 2022
  • Daniel Rossy got the alert as an automated phone call at 5 in the morning.
    Andrew Boryga, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • The system sends texts and emails and makes automated phone calls.
    Savannaheadens, oregonlive, 2 June 2023
  • The league is set to roll out the automated balls and strikes system to each of its eight ballparks in the coming weeks.
    Jacob Bogage, courant.com, 11 July 2019
  • An automated system that knows which sand to feed each truck speeds the process along.
    David Wethe / Bloomberg, Time, 10 July 2018
  • Wendy's is not the first fast-food chain to turn to automated processes.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 May 2023
  • Before automated lights, the range lights had a full-time tender to keep the lights burning.
    Daniel Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The driver’s hands weren’t detected on the wheel for about one-third of the drive and the car twice issued automated warnings to him.
    Ryan Beene, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2020
  • In the late 1960s, the Coast Guard planned to raze the buildings and erect a simple tower with an automated beacon in their place.
    Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The companies have been slow to act against such automated calls on their own.
    Tali Arbel, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • The sign on the SurfUp automated rack boils it down further: scan, surf, shaka.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Creator is just the latest piece of the Bay Area automated food-tech landscape.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • The company then sent her an automated email saying that the page would be removed in 7-9 days.
    Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Swing King sets up automated video equipment and pays out prizes.
    Forum News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • But an automated voice announced slots were full and instructed her to wait on hold again.
    Katheryn Houghton, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This is such an automated routine that my butt lands in the car at 8 a.m. with no conscious memory of the last 30 minutes.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Go with the automated process for determining the best listing time and date.
    Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 14 Dec. 2018
  • To keep automated cars, buses, and trucks safe, the precise time that these vehicles operate is of the essence.
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The pilots tried to counter the downward movement, but the automated system overrode them.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The automated strike zone, also known as robo-umps, is probably on deck.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • An automated algorithm analyzes the blood pressure readings patients send in and flags abnormal results to doctors.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024

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