mechanisms

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Together, these mechanisms helped create the larger and more persistent Antarctic ice sheets that later defined Earth's ice age cycles.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

“Any decision to proceed would need to take into account mechanisms to recover the debt that is owed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Science becomes self-correcting only when scholars create the institutional mechanisms that make it possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The weather has not been severe enough for the heat policy to be invoked this year, but almost all the players have been using cooling mechanisms during matches.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

In a November issue of Life, I found, to my great interest, drawings of the internal mechanisms of a variety of different kinds of rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam