mechanisms

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This has weakened the market’s previous self-correcting mechanisms.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

“The company has demonstrated a degree of hostility to shareholders’ exercise of certain of these key accountability mechanisms in recent years,” ISS wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

"Over 200 abusive comments were posted on my page, and the reporting mechanisms are simply not good enough," he said.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Rather than competing ideas, the mechanisms work together as parts of the same overall process.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Physiologists concentrate, instead, on the mechanisms by which these structures and parts interact to enable the functions of living organisms; they concern themselves with how things work.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee