mechanism
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Tenaga Nasional and other power producers have faced a limited impact from rising energy prices, as higher fuel costs are largely passed on to consumers through the monthly adjustment mechanism, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have now identified a biological mechanism that strengthens the case that M. morganii can affect brain health.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
“The most immediate—and economically painful—adjustment mechanism is demand destruction, which is already becoming evident.”
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Long before the current artificial intelligence boom, he was experimenting with the idea of turning truth into a market mechanism.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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Engineering - Introductory
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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