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mechanically

adverb as in automatically

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The federal legislation also would prohibit the use of mechanical and chemical restraints.

Peale was apprenticed to a saddler at age 13, but spent almost as much time tinkering with mechanical devices of all sorts as he did saddling.

He is a mechanical engineer who has had a long career at Dassault.

Just months before mechanical engineering student Desmond Koney was due to graduate from college, his father died suddenly, leaving Desmond a struggling pineapple farm on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana’s capital.

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It’s jam-packed with over 17,000 sensors tuned to mechanical forces alone, not to mention sensors for temperature and pain.

“Keeping in contact with those people, and mechanically getting them to the trial, those are the hard parts,” Risner said.

What about allowing a school to manually or "mechanically" restrain students?

“First we targeted the tanks and the jeeps with IEDs,” he said mechanically, as if recalling a combat briefing.

All this work serves to paint the actors and the action as very mechanically convincing.

This process can be mechanically assisted by deep belly massages and, yes, colonic irrigation.

He did not once look back at her; his face seemed full of thought, his hands acting as it were mechanically.

Now and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.

"But—but—oh, tell me," and then he became silent and looked away, raising the sandwich to his mouth mechanically.

It is thus obvious that the drainage of the soil modifies its properties both mechanically and chemically.

Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mechanically, such as: regularly, unchangeably, and unreasoningly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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