How to Use automate in a Sentence

automate

verb
Definition of automatenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many people have paid attention to the role that AI is likely to have in the labor market by eliminating jobs or displacing workers or automating whole lines of production.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The rapid improvement of the technology has been accompanied by dire warnings that A.I. could soon automate away millions of jobs — and software developers have been singled out as prime targets.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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