mechanisms

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This has weakened the market’s previous self-correcting mechanisms.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

“The company has demonstrated a degree of hostility to shareholders’ exercise of certain of these key accountability mechanisms in recent years,” ISS wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The funding mechanisms are complicated, the language antiquated and much about the income remains under a padlock of privacy.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Rather than competing ideas, the mechanisms work together as parts of the same overall process.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

Our arsenals for fighting off bacteria are so powerful, and involve so many different defense mechanisms, that we are in more danger from them than from the invaders.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas