Example Sentences

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Few had expected a fairly straightforward autocorrection algorithm to acquire such broad abilities.

From Scientific American • May 11, 2023

It sets up an autocorrection algorithm, which chooses the most likely word to complete a passage based on laborious statistical analysis of hundreds of gigabytes of Internet text.

From Scientific American • May 11, 2023

Being an old machine, there was no autocorrection.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2014