robotlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Another, represented by a robotlike avatar and the username UncleTuskle, said that “as a person with social phobia, it’s easier for me to be here” than in a physical church.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
A likely next step is that our current machines will become more robotlike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2018
Reviewing the movie in The New York Times, Howard Thompson characterized it as a “sci-fi honey, with tiny earthlings ‘from a destroyed planet’ dominated as pets or outcasts by huge, robotlike rulers.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
The code merely represents a formalization of the business logic that once may have been previously done by hand with a pen, paper, and a calculator according to stereotyped, even robotlike business procedures and rules.
From Slate ● May 20, 2015
Then she stood up, put her jacket back on with the same robotlike movements, and left.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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