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[ adverb ] in a reflex manner
Examples "he answered automatically" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)`` People automatically assume that I 'm in college '' , a nineteen year old machinist observed irritably . (Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)With troops dispersed on fields_of_battle rather than on the parade_ground , it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication . (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)They seem to believe that a person will act automatically as_soon_as he contacts something new . Frequently we are given assurance that automatically all ideas will be sifted and resifted and in_the_end only the good ones will survive . Helen_Deutsch informed us ( The_Psychology_of_Women , Vol. 2 , , 434 ) that in all cultures `` the term ' stepmother ' automatically evokes deprecatory implications '' , a conclusion accepted by many . |
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[ adverb ] in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism
Synonyms Examples "this door opens mechanically" Related terms |
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