verb
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Etymology
Origin of automatize
First recorded in 1830–40; automat(ic) + -ize
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"It's difficult to automatize the making of handbags, so a lot of it is manual," Cassegrain says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2015
Through their entanglements with algorithms, global music metadata arrangements, and automatized web-scrapers, streamed music files get wrapped up in the whirlpools of data traffic that surround digital streams.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2019
Music metadata, such as genre specifications, fundamentally influence how streamed music moves and is displayed, not least because metadata underlie music recommendation algorithms and other automatized ways of bundling musical pieces together.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2019
The intercom repeated in English, “Terminal 1, a child in lost-and-found,” while the boy hustled along, incongruous: a body automatized with purpose, as though if you got close enough you would hear him ticking.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2010
But this week, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the operations of the first completely automatized milling machine, the idea no longer seemed quite so farfetched.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our automatized factories produce the same goods for us year in and year out.
From The Status Civilization by Sheckley, Robert
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