mechanisms
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Several biological mechanisms could help explain why these substances are associated with stroke.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
"The mechanisms people dislike about modern social media are often the same that made those platforms extraordinarily good at keeping people there," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We've done our best to try to handle that within the mechanisms that we have to offset that," Rainey said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
His obsessive court rituals — including meticulously aligning his water bottles and executing his precise pre-point routines — were not merely superstitions, but coping mechanisms in a high-stress, solitary sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Physiologists concentrate, instead, on the mechanisms by which these structures and parts interact to enable the functions of living organisms; they concern themselves with how things work.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
