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mechanism

[mek-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈmɛk əˌnɪz əm /




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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

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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