mechanisms

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But I lead a great life and I use my coping mechanisms from being an international sportsman.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

My research had found that corporate governance mechanisms, such as board of directors and active shareholders, tend to complement and balance each other to drive a company’s performance.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

These results closely matched the biological mechanisms observed in the mouse studies.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

A nonscientific layman like me would think that the scientific community would already have mechanisms like this in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond