In automobile manufacturing, many parts of the production process that were once completed by people are now completed using robotics. Workers who lost their jobs as a result of the use of robotics became __________ unemployed.

a. frictionally
b. structurally
c. naturally
d. cyclically


Ans: d. cyclically

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