mechanisms
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Outside the administration, some private-sector analysts are already debating what such discussions might ultimately produce and whether more concrete crisis-management mechanisms could eventually follow, such as an AI hotline for communication between high-level leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
County, and it also laid out the practical, political and financial mechanisms to make it happen.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Another challenge involves reaction mechanisms, which describe how reactions proceed step by step through the movement of electrons.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
The RBI acknowledges this in the discussion paper, saying introducing lags would require changes across the system, from transaction queuing to cancellation mechanisms, and would involve "cost and effort for the ecosystem".
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
We do not understand human behavior well enough to be sure of the mechanisms underlying these relationships, although we can conjecture.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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