mechanism
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It is the same mechanism behind Avastin, a drug approved more than two decades ago, and it carries real risks like bleeding, clots and high blood pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
For decades, successfully targeting the central mechanism that causes the vast majority of pancreatic cancers was considered impossible.
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
Food and Drug Administration via a new, fast-track approval mechanism that could take as little as two months.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.
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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