How to Use automation in a Sentence

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  • Worse, cultural resistance to AI — driven by fear of automation and the potential displacement of jobs — further slows progress.
    — Bob Violino, CNBC, 22 Jan. 2025
  • What is the longer-term impact of automation and AI at the port?
    — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • For Shimizu, the answer to the problem comes through robots, automation, and AI.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Officials have said that full automation could be viable by the end of the decade.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The pizza itself is the product of two years of fine-tuning the recipe for both flavor and ease of automation.
    — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
  • All the automation is controlled via an app, which is easy to use and available in 16 languages.
    — New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
  • On the first part, briefly, for 20 years of tech automation, people have predicted all kinds of jobs would go away.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • In that respect, automation in art has been a preview of the rise of AI in art with code now standing in for the teams of assistants.
    — Adario Strange, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The union had been demanding a 77% raise over six years, plus a complete ban on the use of automation at the ports, which members see as a threat to their jobs.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Is there an automation out there that can solve a problem in your business?
    — Melissa Johnson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • These were the employees who reset the bowling pins and rolled back the bowling balls in the days before automation.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • There’s also not a huge amount of automation by the attackers, Bilodeau says.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The two sides will still need to come to terms on the question of automation, which has emerged as a more existential issue.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Once automation arrived, the Coast Guard was ready to tear down the old keepers’ residence.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The Starliner undocked and the left the space station Sept. 6 and returned to Earth without a crew via automation.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Employers who can’t find workers may look to automation to fill the gap.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The hub still has Z-Wave, but that's only for automation of third-party products.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also synchronized automation in the show, with ring lights moving up and down on either side of the stage as the evening carries on.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • The same goes for Hunter Douglas smart blinds with PowerView automation.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
  • But one of the ways that need is being filled is more automation and technology.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Autor said the hardship that dockworkers would face if automation were to advance and put many of them out of work.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The biggest impact of automation may well be to the labor market.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The large firms that dominate this have a long track record of using automation to abuse workers rather than to share fairly with them.
    — Time, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Phones may even replace apps with automations controlled by an on-device AI agent.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2024
  • The authors of automation are getting a taste of the icy fear that comes from watching machines go after your labor.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The Oxford study shows a correlation between low wages and the risk of automation.
    — Garfield Hylton, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In the past 8 to 10 years there have been tremendous advancements in warehouse automation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
  • But automation isn’t just a showbiz concern, new polling for the Los Angeles Times shows.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
  • While the platform has seen improvements over the past year, it’s still suffered from a lack of automation options and slow response times due to its reliance on the cloud.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • As the living-small trend continues, today’s versions pack their compact footprints with everything, including modern features like smart-home automation, rooftop decks, multiple stories and walls of glass.
    — Miles Walls, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025

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