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mechanic

[muh-kan-ik] / məˈkæn ɪk /
NOUN
machinist
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In that time, he said he’s seen mechanic rates jump from around $55 an hour when he started to $175 today, while parts costs have doubled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The industrial mechanic and former union leader is a relative political novice, and says he's always refused to define himself along party lines.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Kushner’s father, who had worked as an Army mechanic in World War II, told her years later that he had never been more terrified than when he took her to have that abortion.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"If I had known how close I would have come to death on that day, I wouldn't have gone into that restaurant to eat. Only we don't know how close death is," the mechanic says.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Her mechanic, Yekaterina “Katya” Polunina, came running up to Lera and kissed her.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He worked as an Uber driver, studied for a mechanics qualification at Uxbridge College and had no convictions since entering the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

My colleague Alex Galbraith recently argued that food may be where consumers most easily recognize the otherwise abstract mechanics of private equity.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

In a deeply reported article, Claudia Assis outlined the mechanics of the global refining market to explain why diesel prices remain stubbornly high and how that is affecting businesses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But AI has made the mechanics of the classroom harder by separating production from understanding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to clash.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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