It is one of the first lessons a copy editor learns: ATM stands for automated teller machine, so referring to “an ATM machine” is redundant. I must have walked around with that in my head for more than a decade before, last week, being smacked violently in the same area by a related thought:
“Automated teller machine” itself is redundant. An automated teller is, by definition, a machine.
So they’re really just automated tellers.
Pass it around.
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