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automatic pilot
noun
- Also calledautopilot a device that automatically maintains an aircraft on a preset course
- on automatic pilot informal.acting without conscious thought because of tiredness, shock, or familiarity with the task being performed
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of automatic pilot1
Idioms and Phrases
- on automatic pilot, functioning in an unthinking or reflexive manner.
Example Sentences
âThe sailboat crew were either unable to avoid collisionâ or they could have been down below with Theros on automatic pilot, an anonymous source told Saltwire.
Jerome H. Powell, her successor as Fed chair, said it was so straightforward that it should be on âautomatic pilotâ and wouldnât merit close scrutiny.
Claiming that there are no significant differences between the two parties is a form of super-ideological gaslighting on automatic pilot.
Johnson argued that keeping spending on âautomatic pilotâ was threatening to make the programs go âbankrupt.â
Instead of acting as our representatives and making tough decisions, legislators put taxation on automatic pilot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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