mechanism
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Tenaga Nasional and other power producers have faced a limited impact from rising energy prices, as higher fuel costs are largely passed on to consumers through the monthly adjustment mechanism, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Although the research focused on plants, Tharp wanted to know whether the same mechanism might exist in other organisms.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
Successive governments have urged councils to make use of the orders as a mechanism to revitalise high streets.
From BBC • 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
But there was an alternative to constructing some sort of high-pressure mechanism.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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