mechanism
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"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
With the feedback mechanism effectively switched off, carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere and Earth remained warm.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
This mechanism allows them to sell more shares than the offering sizes and buy that same amount, either from the market or the company, to deliver them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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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The minister said they required further assurances from Meta, despite its assertion that it had built mechanisms to defend against cybercrimes through WhatsApp.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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
These were strong mechanisms of control, she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
By addressing multiple disease mechanisms at once, the drug could represent a broader therapeutic approach than treatments aimed only at amyloid or tau.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
In real life, the biomedical sciences have not yet reached the stage of any kind of general applicability to disease mechanisms.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Power Suffix: -ism
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