mechanism
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To prevent prices of perpetual futures from diverging too dramatically from the spot price of the underlying asset, perpetual futures traded on exchanges like Hyperliquid rely on a mechanism called funding rates.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
To uncover the clock's mechanism, the researchers combined traditional molecular biology experiments with DNA sequencing, protein sequencing, and the artificial intelligence tool AlphaFold.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
"Without a global coordination mechanism, companies and governments will have to make difficult decisions about safety while under competitive and geopolitical pressures," it said.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
“We need a mechanism for sealing off the upper aperture too,” Quentin said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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