automatic vending

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noun

selling goods by vending machines

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Words nearby automatic vending

automatic redial, automatic repeat, automatic rifle, automatic tracking, automatic transmission, automatic vending, automatic writing, automation, automatism, automatize, automatograph

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Hovering above the scene, commandos in helicopters were poised with automatic rifles.
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Brinsley stepped up to the passenger side of the patrol car, raised a silver Taurus semi-automatic pistol and began firing.
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The low crunch of packed dirt against rubber tire was overwhelmed by the ragged explosions of automatic gunfire.
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Instead we heard the crackle of automatic gunfire and we could see gray smoke rising from the eastern side of the town.
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He now stands in the self-proclaimed caliphate, also holding a child as well as an automatic weapon.
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In the same way the technical form and mechanism of production were presumed to respond to an automatic stimulus.
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This automatic suitable bass device does not interfere with the normal use of the stop-keys of the pedal department by hand.
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It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.
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He launched into a long explanation of some scheme he had in mind for securing automatic balancing.
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No sooner had his feet hit the floor, however, than he felt the cold, stern prod of the barrel of an automatic.
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