self-operating
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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There are other self-operating trains across the globe, including the SkyTrain in Vancouver and at several airports, but most run on tracks only in closed systems.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025
From the start, as nerves fray and tempers flare, it’s clear this family has its demons, which will soon be supernaturally compounded by eerie rumblings, self-operating doors and collapsing shelves.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024
The challenge, experts say, will be to take existing law and use it to determine if a self-operating system is at fault.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2017
The Big Three have used every device of the designer's art and the engineer's skill to make cars steadily bigger, sleeker, more luxurious, almost self-operating.
From Time Magazine Archive
It carried self-operating information about the range of temperatures, radiation, gravitational influences and other conditions to be encountered on the journey and here on the moon's surface.
From By Earthlight by Walton, Bryce
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