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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • These days there is software that can automate all of your backup tasks.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, right now what the Clean Slate Initiative is, our mission is to automate record clearance.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Some tasks may be automated, but the core role will remain intact.
    — Winston Tang, Fortune, 30 July 2024
  • There are tasks within your jobs that will get automated, simplified, and will be better to do, and faster to do.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 11 May 2024
  • At every step of the way, the IDF has stressed the place of human beings in the process to review the final conclusions – nothing is automated.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Is there a new piece of technology that can automate the execution of the task?
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Some unique designs of the guitar tuners even use motors and sensors to automate the process entirely.
    — Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers at Reset were unable to identify which app was being used to automate the creation of the videos.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And as of 2019, others were already designing A.I. bots to automate bond sales.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • SaaS tools which saved time and helped me automate processes were crucial.
    — Nick Brown, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The whole process, from the light measurement to the data analysis, is automated and takes about two hours per sample.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Only 3% of those surveyed expect AI to fully automate their job over that time frame.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • By automating the most routine tasks, our report shows that professionals predict AI could free up as much as four hours a week in the next year.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 July 2024
  • But more and more of these judgments are being automated and farmed out to algorithms.
    — Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 7 July 2023
  • There are many cost-effective ways to automate tasks and processes, which can free up time and resources.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
  • However, just one-quarter or less of their processes were digitized or automated in the past 12 months.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But whereas those operations have at times hired hundreds of employees to write fake content, AI now allows most of that process to be automated.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024

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