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Examples
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Indeed Rivera manages to capture not just the feeling of intense activity in an automobile plant but the kind of automaton-like rhythm we associate with assembly-line production.
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Ellen, automaton-like, paced the long corridor behind Warwick and then the even longer staircase to the upper levels of the house.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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That is because his rebranding would have been derailed if he had gone out there, automaton-like, and swept through the course to win his fifth green blazer.
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That is because his rebranding would have been derailed if he had gone out there, automaton-like, and swept through the course to win his fifth green blazer.
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Marina & The Diamonds Oh No! (Atlantic) There's nothing quite like singing a song about becoming a robotic, unfeeling automaton driven crazy by "the machine" in a robotic, automaton-like voice, is there?
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Every protester who marches without permission, facing arrest is a soldier, without armor, without tear-gas mask, without kevlar vest and knee and elbow pads, like these automaton-like robo-cops who travel from all over the US, probably as volunteers, getting a thrill, playing macho-cop so they can take pictures and Tivo themselves being tough.
G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing 2009
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But the arrogance and entitlement of a United States senator is no more probable then the petty tyrannies, surly dismissiveness, and automaton-like manner of a flight attendant.
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If you want to see how to turn your child's insane wide-eyed imagination into total drudgery and automaton-like conformity, just take a look at this graph:
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If you want to see how to turn your child's insane wide-eyed imagination into total drudgery and automaton-like conformity, just take a look at this graph:
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Every protester who marches without permission, facing arrest is a soldier, without armor, without tear-gas mask, without kevlar vest and knee and elbow pads, like these automaton-like robo-cops who travel from all over the US, probably as volunteers, getting a thrill, playing macho-cop so they can take pictures and Tivo themselves being tough.
Printing: G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing 2009
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