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mechanize

[mek-uh-nahyz] / ˈmɛk əˌnaɪz /
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Paris’s enormous science and technology museum is a reminder of France’s role in helping the world modernize and mechanize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Other growers are trying industrial-scale greenhouses, indoor beds of soil in massive warehouses and special robots to mechanize parts of the farming process.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

So long as peasant families were available to plant and harvest crops, there was no pressing need to mechanize agriculture either.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Leonard: There’s no way to mechanize it completely, at least not in a way that makes us all feel good about the outcome.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2020

It was Foaly’s idea to mechanize the whole procedure.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The second season similarly mechanizes Margulies' Laura to serve as a way in to examining the UBA workplace culture's enduring subtle bigotry.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2021

“The ACV provides a mobile capability that mechanizes the force to maintain tempo with the remainder of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force, specifically the M1A1 tank,” Col.

From Fox News ● Apr. 17, 2019

We hear them before we see them, often through a filter that distorts and mechanizes human voices.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2017

Earlier this month, Sata tilted at Konkola chief executive Kishore Kumar over KCM's plan to lay off around 1,500 workers as it mechanizes some of its mining operations.

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2013

Increasingly mechanized farm work sent more people to city factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The sportsbooks would argue that the player only got caught because of the highly mechanized, public nature of the betting market.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

But Mr. Simpson’s next album, 2019’s “Sound & Fury,” was accompanied by an anime film on Netflix and found Mr. Simpson toying with mechanized dance rhythms and going deeper into psychedelia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

I also saw airfields dotting the surface, where rows of gleaming gunships, spacecraft, and mechanized battle tanks stood waiting for action.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Sybilla Masters invented corn-processing machinery in 1715, mechanizing the arduous task of pounding corn into meal or flour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Ira “Bob” Born, a candy company executive known as the “Father of Peeps” for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died, according to the Lehigh Valley News.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

The cotton market had globalized and become increasingly competitive, but the state delayed mechanizing cotton production to continue offering low-skilled jobs that had low returns.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022

The car-free carriage roads in a way became a hedge against modernity: Both summer people and locals would always have a place to escape the clattering engines of a mechanizing world.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021

The leadership's policy of placing agriculture on an industrial footing and mechanizing production demands increased investment in machinery and other physical facilities.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut




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