AUTOMATED Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

automated

adjective

ˈȯ-tə-ˌmā-təd

Definition of automated

as in automatic

designed to replace or decrease human labor and especially physical labor an automated facility in which you can get your car washed without having encountered a single human being

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Recent Examples of automated Bot monetization is how a business earns a return when automated software uses its content, data or digital services. — Rishi Katdare, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 The [automated license-plate reader] cameras simply take a picture of the tag and the vehicle description. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026 The attention generated by this AI management experiment was among the reasons California lawmakers moved to restrict automated workplace decisions. — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2026 Matt Wansley, a law professor at Cardozo focusing on AI and automated driving regulation, says being cryptic about how autonomous its vehicles actually are is part of Tesla’s usual playbook. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for automated

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District winners earn automatic berths into the FHSAA playoffs.

— Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
The Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was supposed to force automatic Medicare cuts if spending exceeded target growth rates, was repealed in 2018 without ever becoming operational.

— Dana P. Goldman, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026

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Five of the world's space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector and a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars' two pint-sized moons.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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