mechanism
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Early on, the braking mechanism was harsh and the trucks sometimes unexpectedly stopped when approaching an overpass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
You can’t depend on it as a kind of law-enforcing mechanism, and that may be the scariest thing of all.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
It has no enforcement mechanism, and previous efforts by Singapore to hold companies linked to wildfires legally culpable have also stalled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Its proposals include a pooled fund, technical assistance and shared promotion, alongside exploration of a new county-level arts funding mechanism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
But in scientific language, a word conveys more than an idea—a mechanism, a consequence, a prediction.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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That deal was officially "aimed at assisting the authorities in securing mining sites, improving tax collection mechanisms and curbing cross-border smuggling of minerals", the group's report added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
We can be fairly certain that any cooperation between the museum and the film production came with the understanding that no actual security mechanisms would even be hinted at.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
She added that feelings of blame and guilt were "very common" during bereavement and could lead to "destructive" coping mechanisms.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Cancer also involves abnormal cell behavior, including failures in the mechanisms that ordinarily regulate cell growth and division.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The ethos of atomic physics—the relentless drive to find irreducible particles, universal mechanisms, and systematic explanations—would soon permeate biology and drive the discipline toward new methods and new questions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Power Suffix: -ism
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