mechanism
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Earlier this year, she suffered lingering concussion symptoms following a freak gym accident in which the locking mechanism on a leg-press machine failed and a 45kg weight crashed onto her head and knee.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
A clear mechanism must also be "established to guarantee the continued release of all blocked funds".
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
“Basically, I’m wondering if the reaction is over, or, or if upon stopping the cooling mechanism, if it would re-initiate itself.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
The wee powered hardtop mechanism does retract, after a fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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Engineering - Introductory
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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