Finding the kill switch for the automatons is not easy, and the scrambled instructions scream at Talos like the howls of dying angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [NaNoWriMo Post 1: Talos’ Story « The Graveyard] Reference

Instead, we simply must be Limbaugh's automatons, which is to say racist, fascist thugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Review Online] Reference

Teachers are not automatons that are making widgets.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2005] Reference

Yotian automatons began cutting each other to ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

    Two of the automatons fell back, then counterattacked as one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

As grim automatons they handled their guns, and moved silently about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

Party bosses lost their sway, and delegates were turned into automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire Last Time] Reference

So far as she was concerned the servants might have been mere automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

KURTZ: And to understand that journalists are not automatons and not robots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2007] Reference

And each day, around the midnight bell, the living automatons lurched into camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

They go like automatons; will trot if allowed till they fall down, and never balk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

They float on the stream of society mere automatons in the great hand of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

Another message from propaganda-meisters is that Chinese athletes aren't automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [All That Glitters …] Reference

Sharpe looked at the companies marching steadily through the square like automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

It would deluge an already overcrowded profession with a flood of mediocre automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Reflexive as automatons, the two big men took up positions on either side of the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mid Flinx]

The metal automatons were quick, and with their weapons had a reach the statues lacked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

The Power of Perspective: How many people do you know who go through life like automatons?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Taran: Turn On Your Happiness Antenna] Reference

His men were drilled and disciplined until they were automatons, for Braddock was a martinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference

Saxe wanted keen men, not automatons; in that, he was singular among the captains of his day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

MIKE DEWINE (R), OHIO: Great justices are more than just legal automatons, legal technicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005] Reference

Michelle Obama -- you know, we say in the media we want real people, we don't want automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2007] Reference

Shape-shifting automatons, made of primal clay worked over adjustable frames, held the flanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

Constitution were not automatons, or this instrument the accident of the throw of the dice-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference

And you know, guidance is one thing, but to try to create these automatons is a whole other story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2006] Reference

But no one claims that human beings are mindless automatons, blindly striving to replicate our genes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology Of Beauty] Reference

They felt as if their souls were living apart, and that they were mere automatons in a panoramic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

She heard their approach and tried to navigate her way through the typing pool, a pool of human automatons.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

Chinamen had always seemed to her blank automatons; but this one looked keenly, pointedly, as if he personally took note.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

The mere mechanical parts of education may at all times be purchased for money; automatons may be made to perform wonders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference

If every child performed equally well, we would be a country of automatons who never evolved our ways of teaching and learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A Global Health Crisis] Reference

The modern idea of efficiency puts a premium on the sedentary feature of occupations and employees are frequently automatons that sit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

I should be filling these faded blue margins with esoteric mathematical symbols and finite automatons diagrams that snake and undulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finite Automatons in Winter Quarter] Reference