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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As though I did not exist; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies.
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He took my hand and led me away from the automaton .
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I was what the materialists declared a human to be, an automaton .
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It was the mechanical accuracy of an automaton .
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Rising slowly like an automaton , she made her way over to the counter and picked up the receiver.
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Servants were not allowed to have eyes that were alive, that spoke of a person and not an automaton .
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The automaton no longer looked so innocent.