by machine

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: with a machine
The mail used to be sorted by hand but is sorted now by machine.

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But, driven in part by machine learning’s enormous appetite for compute power, a demand for ever smaller transistors is expanding the range of materials that could serve as substrates for transistors and all the components of modern computer chips. IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for by machine

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“By machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20machine. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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