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mechanism

[mek-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈmɛk əˌnɪz əm /




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"I'm very much a champion of getting us back to having a river bus, having river travel and having the river as a transit mechanism and people being able to access it again".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

"This leads to a new mechanism of dark matter production that has not been researched before."

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Regeneron plans to test the mechanism behind Otarmeni in other forms of inherited hearing loss as well as in conditions like obesity and diabetes, Yancopoulos said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Long before the current artificial intelligence boom, he was experimenting with the idea of turning truth into a market mechanism.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

It was a set of diagram drawings of the inside mechanism of a gasoline pump—approximately identical to the ones at Mr. Klein’s store.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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