mechanize
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Other growers are trying industrial-scale greenhouses, indoor beds of soil in massive warehouses and special robots to mechanize parts of the farming process.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
One of his forebears, Sir Horace Plunkett, pioneered modern, industrial farming in Ireland early last century, encouraging small farmers to set up cooperatives and to mechanize their operations and use fertilizers and chemicals.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Leonard: There’s no way to mechanize it completely, at least not in a way that makes us all feel good about the outcome.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2020
Morgan must modernize, standardize, mechanize, Sir Harvey-Jones declared, or die.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2016
It was Foaly’s idea to mechanize the whole procedure.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The second season similarly mechanizes Margulies' Laura to serve as a way in to examining the UBA workplace culture's enduring subtle bigotry.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2021
“The ACV provides a mobile capability that mechanizes the force to maintain tempo with the remainder of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force, specifically the M1A1 tank,” Col.
From Fox News ● Apr. 17, 2019
We hear them before we see them, often through a filter that distorts and mechanizes human voices.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2017
Earlier this month, Sata tilted at Konkola chief executive Kishore Kumar over KCM's plan to lay off around 1,500 workers as it mechanizes some of its mining operations.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2013
The sportsbooks would argue that the player only got caught because of the highly mechanized, public nature of the betting market.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Sybilla Masters, who lived in colonial Pennsylvania, invented machinery that mechanized the time-consuming, arduous task of pounding corn by hand into usable meal or flour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
A mechanized wheelchair can cost as much as a used car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to their tasks in this mechanized setting.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Sybilla Masters invented corn-processing machinery in 1715, mechanizing the arduous task of pounding corn into meal or flour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Ira “Bob” Born, a candy company executive known as the “Father of Peeps” for mechanizing the process to make marshmallow chicks, has died, according to the Lehigh Valley News.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
The cotton market had globalized and become increasingly competitive, but the state delayed mechanizing cotton production to continue offering low-skilled jobs that had low returns.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022
The car-free carriage roads in a way became a hedge against modernity: Both summer people and locals would always have a place to escape the clattering engines of a mechanizing world.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
But always there was the same purpose stinking in it all, the mechanizing, the perfect mechanizing of human life.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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The Modern Period, c. 1750 to c. 1914
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