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• Voters should either mail them in or vote in person by machine.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Apple introduced a live translation app for Apple Watch that’s supported by machine learning.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 10 June 2024
• Heck, even the whistling sound on the record was done by machine.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• Crochet can’t be made by machine; it’s all made by hand.
  — The Editors, ELLE, 24 July 2023
• At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid.
  — Sebastian Junger, Time, 19 May 2021
• In a recount, officials could rescan the QR codes by machine or hand count the text.
  — Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• Once a batch of envelopes passed muster, workers got in lines to have stacks of the envelopes opened quickly by machine.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2020
• The puzzles are then cut and disassembled by machine, and bagged and boxed by hand.
  — David Frese, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Apple didn't use the word AI here, but this is surely driven by machine learning in some way.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 June 2024
• It was dedicated to a girl who had been killed by machine gunfire.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
• Shibabaw’s fresh flatbread is a simple dough of all-purpose flour, oil and butter, mixed by machine and pan-fried to order.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
• And much of what was once done with clinicians’ eyes, ears, and hands can now be done more efficiently by machine.
  — Bryan Vartabedian, STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
• The scheme sometimes requires disassembly of Lego sets, and sorting of bricks both by machine and by hand.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• Greenwood residents were shot at point-blank range with their hands up, gunned down with their backs turned, picked off by machine guns perched atop a hill and bombed from above by planes.
  — Suzette Malveaux, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• The signature on each ballot must be matched with what's on file for the voter, a process that can be done manually or by machine.
  — Kathleen Ronayne, ajc, 17 Nov. 2022
• While leathers can now be cut by machine or laser as well as by hand, most of the construction is done by someone in a coverall brandishing a tool.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
• Many of them have hung out their own shingles, using their slide rules to calculate profit and loss while the exciting deals are done by machine.
  — Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
• While the majority of the cigars are made by machine, three hand rollers work on the factory’s top floor rolling the company’s premium cigars.
  — Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• The first sequence showed the aftermath of a mass murder at Leipzig, where men and women fleeing a burning barracks were mowed down by machine gun fire.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023
• This artwork wasn’t manufactured by machine, but each was built and bonded by hand.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 May 2023
• Two recounts, one by hand and one by machine, confirmed Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia.
  — Alexa Corse, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• One proposal suggested a tax on every yard of cloth made by machine.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
• Almost all the work is done by hand, and even those small sections sewn by machine are worked on with an old-fashioned manual contraption straight out of Coco Chanel’s time.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• Those same ballots have already been counted mostly by machine in the days after the election, then subjected to a full hand recount and an audit.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2020
• The failure meant travelers had to have their passports checked manually rather than by machine.
  — Sharon Braithwaite, CNN, 27 May 2023
• The curves that Ruskin thought only fingers could fashion are now better executed by machine.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021
• New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
  — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
• Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.
  — Teresa Carey, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2021
• Deere also recently unveiled a crop sprayer aided by machine learning.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 18 May 2022
• Paperless voting machines began giving way in many places to paper ballots that could be scanned and counted by machine, a system widely seen as more secure.
  — Emma Brown and Jon Swaine, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024