mechanism
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So teams have to use a different mechanism in the rules if they consider the penalty unfair.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
My only coping mechanism was to give up trying and read.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Our bodies have a mechanism for rebuilding worn-out or damaged tissue, replacing whole sections of our selves annually.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
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
But Darwin kept returning to the mechanism of heredity: What had made the long-necked antelope emerge in the first place?
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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