mechanism
Example Sentences
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A new spray mechanism delivers a “lighter, more controlled application,” it says.
"There's still so much to learn about how the whole body adapts to changes in oxygen, and how we could leverage these mechanisms to treat a range of conditions."
From Science Daily
Future therapies could perhaps act only on the skin, without interfering with the mechanisms that tell us when to stop scratching, Gualdani said.
The goal of this trend “is a desire to rebalance time and energy and reduce distractability and related stress,” said Khodayari, whose research focuses on the mechanisms of attention and emotion.
From Los Angeles Times
One implication of this shift to more protectionism is that it distorts pricing mechanisms in the market, making it “hard to place where the value of a particular commodity is,” JPMorgan’s Kaneva said.
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