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automatic pilot
noun
Also called automatic, autopilot, gyropilot, robot.ĢżAeronautics.Ģżan airborne electronic control system that automatically maintains a preset heading and attitude.
automatic pilot
noun
Also called: autopilot.Ģża device that automatically maintains an aircraft on a preset course
informalĢżacting without conscious thought because of tiredness, shock, or familiarity with the task being performed
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of automatic pilot1
Idioms and Phrases
on automatic pilot, functioning in an unthinking or reflexive manner.
Example Sentences
The DNCās current executive committee is a bastion of the party establishment, unlikely to signal to grassroots Democrats and the general public that the party is no longer locked into automatic pilot.
āThe sailboat crew were either unable to avoid collisionā or they could have been down below with Theros on automatic pilot, an anonymous source told Saltwire.
Jerome H. Powell, her successor as Fed chair, said it was so straightforward that it should be on āautomatic pilotā and wouldnāt merit close scrutiny.
Claiming that there are no significant differences between the two parties is a form of super-ideological gaslighting on automatic pilot.
Johnson argued that keeping spending on āautomatic pilotā was threatening to make the programs go ābankrupt.ā
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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