mechanism
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Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
A high wealth threshold and a deferral mechanism both show up in Prop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The researchers suggest a possible mechanism involving magma generated in oxidized regions of Earth's mantle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Allowing carers to earn more than an existing earnings limit without losing their entire allowance, replacing it with a taper mechanism instead.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Ella's papa used to tell her that life was a massive and intricate clockwork gear—a mechanism of cogs and springs and cams charged with a purpose, each element having to do its part.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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"While the practical mechanisms will be developed on the go, the new MPs will stick to the students' 1200-page long and detailed plan," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Actuation refers to the mechanisms that control the movement of wings and surfaces, allowing an aircraft to climb, descend, bank, or turn.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Larger studies with longer follow-up periods will be needed to establish whether the benefits persist, identify which patients are most likely to respond, and clarify the biological mechanisms responsible.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Such comparisons could reveal whether certain sleep mechanisms are widespread throughout the animal kingdom or developed independently in different evolutionary lineages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Perhaps the fantastically sensitive and precise immunologic mechanisms for the detection of small molecules such as haptenes represent another way of sensing the same markers.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Power Suffix: -ism
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