mechanism
Example Sentences
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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
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
For decades, successfully targeting the central mechanism that causes the vast majority of pancreatic cancers was considered impossible.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
An enormous amount of work, for instance, went into the mechanism connecting the back of the chair to what chair designers call the seat pan.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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