How to Use computerize in a Sentence

computerize

verb
  • We plan to computerize our billing system.
  • The office is being computerized.
  • Libraries are computerizing their records.
  • Sperm vial numbers at the bank were written in pen and ink, and the facility’s records were not computerized, the suit claimed.
    Jacqueline Mroz, New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • Use or learn to use a point of sale computerized cash register.
    Nathan Paige, cleveland.com, 28 June 2017
  • The fire control system is fully computerized, with the gunner able to select the number of rockets to launch.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The materials have changed from wood to plastic, and the engraving has been computerized.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Like everything else, the car has been computerized to enable new features.
    James Somers, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Massie worked on the battery and computerized power control system for seven days.
    Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But the wine-friendly food itself is actually made and served by humans, and not accessed via some computerized machine like in that zany space-age cartoon.
    James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In the case of the Oxford study, researchers gathered a list of hundreds of occupations and asked a panel of machine learning experts to make their best judgment as to whether or not some of those jobs were likely to be computerized.
    Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Industrial equipment has been computerized for decades, but now those machines have landed on the desktop.
    Chris Anderson, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2013
  • In response to this error, computerized systems were introduced into Miami pawn shops by the end of 1997, only a few months after Cunanan's killing spree.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Each reading takes no more than a few minutes and computerized visual renderings of the results appear instantly.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2019
  • These computerized systems might prompt hospital staff to better document care, which might support the use of more expensive codes, Hargraves said.
    Kenneth Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
  • Michelle Fajman, election board director, said the county purchased the campaign finance reporting software in a bid to computerize the process.
    Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Rather than sit at a desk, the pilots sit side by side at a flat-panel, interactive flight deck computerized cockpit before graduating to a full-flight simulators.
    Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 4 May 2017
  • Now, the company is trying to computerize the experience of buying sandwiches and soda from the corner convenience store.
    Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2016
  • While many computerized electronic voting machines now have paper backups, few states audit the results.
    Byron Tau, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Walter, who died in January, spent decades working for Fred Trump, primarily helping computerize his payroll and billing systems.
    Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • There's the Celestron 114LCM computerized telescope, which can automatically locate thousands of stars and planets and is easy to setup.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2018
  • Before, an amputee could regain mobility with electric, computerized prosthetic limbs, but there was nothing to help a patient with a paralyzed arm, Naft said.
    Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 6 July 2017
  • Metropolitan areas like Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh could still see more than half of their jobs computerized, the study suggests.
    Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 3 May 2017
  • The second time, the Tocco’s computerized brain stopped communicating with its mechanical parts.
    Written By Farah Stockman; Photographs By Alyssa Schukar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Building a house frame in a day At Blueprint Robotics, about 30 software engineers and architects convert builders’ plans into programs that computerized machines follow.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
  • In a future where cryptocurrencies become a form of economic resource (like fuel, water, or electricity) that’s computerized and commoditized, would anyone get rich from hoarding them in her trading account?
    Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • As credit manager for a chain of Chicago area department stores, Herb computerized its operations in the 1960s – before becoming an entrepreneur and cattle rancher.
    sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • House Bill 3871 would boost the agency's budget to computerize organic certificates for better tracking of international shipments.
    Syndicated Columns, OregonLive.com, 30 Dec. 2017
  • These days, new technologies, including air patrols and computerized lightning detection systems, are taking their toll on the traditional lookout tower.
    CBS News, 10 June 2018
  • Caryn Lerman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who studies risky health behavior, hoped that computerized brain training could strengthen activity in parts of the brain used in making good decisions or resisting bad ones.
    Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 10 July 2017

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