mechanisms

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Neuroscience focuses on the biological and computational mechanisms inside the brain, while psychoanalysis examines how those processes are experienced from a person's point of view.

From Science Daily • Jul. 1, 2026

“But as technology has advanced, so too have the mechanisms available to competitors to fix prices without the cigars, the smoke, or even the room.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Gun designer John Moses Browning built a thriving business in the late 1800s by vastly improving firearms’ internal mechanisms, culminating in terrifyingly deadly machine guns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

The framework will set out the steps and verification mechanisms to advance this process.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

We are all obsessed by the need to feed information in, as fast as we can, but we lack sensing mechanisms for getting anything much back.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas