autopilot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of autopilot
Example Sentences
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“The economy feels a bit miserable right now. And I’m shifting from autopilot to a more intentional strategy.”
From MarketWatch
"When I look back now and realise how severe things were, I think at the time I was on autopilot," she said.
From BBC
The research, published in Psychology & Health, found that about two thirds of daily behaviors begin automatically, essentially running on "autopilot" because they have become routine.
From Science Daily
Somehow—autopilot, maybe—I made it through the rest of math.
From Literature
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Since then, Tesla has stopped using the term “autopilot” in California and added “supervised” to describe its Full Self-Driving mode.
From Los Angeles Times
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