NOUN
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a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness
too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot
she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot
she went about her chores on automatic pilot - a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course
How To Use automatic pilot In A Sentence
- We fool ourselves by thinking we can go on automatic pilot, that we can survive by going through the motions.
- She worked on automatic pilot, her hands carrying out the necessary movements.
- She worked on automatic pilot, her hands carrying out the necessary movements.
- It may have carried some kind of beamer that activated your automatic pilot," said Mr. Swift. Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot
- She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself.
- The aircraft was set on automatic pilot.
- You have it on automatic pilot, and with its high - tech computers and cameras.
- If the cabin is pressurized, do not descend at a rate exceeding the value calculated by the flight engineer, and either adjust automatic pilot for descent or turn it OFF.
- As a result, the insect scuttles around on automatic pilot.
- If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station, she could get home almost on automatic pilot.