self-operating

Also self-op·er·a·tive

[self-op-uh-rey-ting, self-]

adjective

1. automatic.

Example Sentences

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.

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Vladeck Houses, the first of these developments, opened in 1940: a complex of 20 six-story brick apartment blocks featuring modern conveniences like “self-operating elevators,” as one news report noted.

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Now his restless spirit seems to live on in the very walls of his stylish glass-and-wood creation, manifesting itself in bloody footprints and self-operating audio equipment and also in dark dreams that tear at Beth’s grip on reality.

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This is American futurism’s great betrayal: The self-operating robo-servants promised in “The Jetsons” are here, but it turns out Rosie might also be conspiring to sell you laxative teas.

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Las Vegas police have cited the driver of a semi-truck that crashed with a self-operating shuttle bus on the day the driverless vehicle debuted.

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