mechanism
Example Sentences
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This would help to build a "defensive mechanism against subsidized steel, against global overcapacities," he added.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Regeneron plans to test the mechanism behind Otarmeni in other forms of inherited hearing loss as well as in conditions like obesity and diabetes, Yancopoulos said.
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
They engineered a hafnium-based thin film that switches states through a more controlled mechanism.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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The Suffix -ism, Part 1
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