mechanism
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Margin growth of 30 bps in Australia beat consensus, despite the impact of a new funding mechanism affecting its Joondalup public campus in the west.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The recent discovery of mantle waves gave researchers a mechanism that could explain how Antarctica reached elevations high enough to begin freezing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Sweating is the most powerful mechanism our body has at its disposal to cool us down,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
In a joint statement after five days of talks in Switzerland, they said they had pledged to "pursue negotiations towards comprehensive peace and conflict resolution" and set up a mechanism to monitor the ceasefire.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
In Darwin’s time, the most commonly accepted mechanism of heredity was a theory advanced by the eighteenth-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The research does not propose physical mechanisms for the observed changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration is also seeking input from the space industry on funding mechanisms for new spaceports and the “potential utility” of public-private partnerships.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The new rules, which take effect on 1 January 2027, mean new car designs without physical release mechanisms on the inside and outside of their doors cannot be sold.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Epigenetic mechanisms can adjust how strongly genes are turned on or off without altering the underlying DNA sequence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing mechanism
Power Suffix: -ism
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