mechanism
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France has invoked the European Union's civil protection mechanism to ask for help, President Emmanuel Macron said, warning the crisis remained "very intense."
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
As a coping mechanism later on, her daughter, now 10 years old, would ask the teacher for permission to take bathroom breaks, time she would then use to take a walk through the hallways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"I think partially maybe those gratitude letters were another mechanism of him saying, how can you go against me if you are thanking me all the time?"
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Here is how the mechanism would work — and in some places, already does.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Inside, the mechanism begins to turn, the cogs and gears waltzing together as the number-marked hoops spin into place.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
"But incomes and bill support mechanisms have not kept up. Households are left with mounting energy debts, forced to choose between heating and eating."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The study was designed to investigate biological mechanisms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
These were strong mechanisms of control, she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“The timing and the mechanisms by which those commodities end up affecting our food prices are much more varied, and they take much more time to occur,” Volpe said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The modern cuckoo clock is a simplified version of these ‘automatic’ mechanisms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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