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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

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

In 1854, Henry David Thoreau published “Walden,” which advocated for withdrawing from mechanized society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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But that old-timey method has long since been replaced by mechanized clearcutting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to their tasks in this mechanized setting.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The Chinese were trading in paper currency, mechanizing the fabric industry, burning coal and producing steel long before the Europeans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

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