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noun

automaton

someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way

In a sentence

Six example sentences with automaton, each labelled with its topic.

  • Six weeks of night shifts turned him into an automaton who answered every question without seeming to hear it.

    Psychology

  • The clerk in the story shuffles papers like an automaton until a stranger's question finally jolts him awake.

    Literature

  • She quit when the sales script left her an automaton reciting the same forty words to every caller.

    Startups

  • The actor plays the clerk as an automaton, stamping forms with the same blank face until a child asks his name.

    Movies

  • Critics called the forward an automaton for running the same set play every possession without ever reading the defense.

    Basketball

  • Kant would say a person who obeys rules only from habit acts as an automaton, and habit earns no moral credit.

    Philosophy

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