Automatic
Automatic adjective - Done instantly and without conscious thought or decision.
Knowing
Knowing adjective - Decided on as a result of careful thought.
Usage example: with knowing malice, she mentioned the fact that the baby's birth had been “premature”
Both words in one sentence
- Especially since most driving schools teach using automatic transmissions, and knowing how to drive a stick is no longer required in most driving exams.
Source: Difficult but Awesome -
Students are expected to be prepared for any reasonable survival circumstances, in particular not bringing cold weather gear is an automatic failure despite Matson knowing they wouldn't need it.
Source: Literature / Tunnel in the Sky - Knowing that he will scan her for energy weapons, she simply brings along a semi-automatic handgun (of a model that went out of style millennia before the story takes place.) She plugs his goons and captures the warlord once they let their guard down.
Source: Combat Pragmatist / Literature
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