Past tense of automatize; made automatic or converted to automatic operation.
From 'automatize' + '-ed' (past tense suffix). Follows standard English verb conjugation where '-ed' or '-d' marks completed actions, a pattern unchanged for over 500 years of English grammar.
When assembly lines first became 'automatized' in the early 1900s, workers feared losing their jobs, which is why labor movements and science fiction still worry about automation—but it also created entirely new job categories we couldn't have imagined before.
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