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mechanize

[mek-uh-nahyz] / ˈmɛk əˌnaɪz /
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automate
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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

So long as peasant families were available to plant and harvest crops, there was no pressing need to mechanize agriculture either.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

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

Mining companies likely couldn’t have dug so deep without South Africa’s abundant cheap labor; and it is nearly impossible to mechanize older operations at current depths with the type of ore they are extracting.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 7, 2018

It was Foaly’s idea to mechanize the whole procedure.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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 muddy painting portrays a mechanized, fractured figure in motion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

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

But Parpart’s design wasn’t just an addition to an icebox—it was entirely mechanized and it had a front-opening cabinet, which made accessing and storing food far easier.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

Dozens of mechanized needles pumping up and down sounded a continuous clickety-clack, clickety-clack over the rumble of foot treadles and the whir of spinning spools of thread.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

In 2022, Trafigura arranged a $600 million syndicated loan to expand minerals-processing capacity and finish mechanizing Chemaf’s Mutoshi mine.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 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

The idea of mechanizing the process of observation, not yet accomplished in Forbes' time, had been put forward within a little over a decade of the first use of the thermometer and barometer in meteorology.

From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Robert P. Multhauf




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