mechanism
Example Sentences
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“The Comeback” is a handy distilling mechanism for an industry that can’t help drowning itself in excess.
From Salon
Their goal was to identify biological mechanisms that could explain why symptoms persist.
From Science Daily
The Major League Baseball Players Association has spent decades ferociously fighting against a salary cap, viewing it only as a mechanism designed to suppress salaries without addressing competition.
But analysis by BBC Verify suggested that dozens of sanctioned vessels sailed through the English Channel in the weeks after that legal mechanism was identified.
From BBC
Yet despite enormous advances in neuroscience, the mechanism by which the brain generates subjective experience remains unknown.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
