mechanism
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The company’s most recent certificate of incorporation describes no such mechanism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
One possible explanation is that the immune system begins to respond more strongly after enough of the foreign sugar has accumulated in body tissues, although this proposed threshold mechanism has not been confirmed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Early on, the braking mechanism was harsh and the trucks sometimes unexpectedly stopped when approaching an overpass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
You can’t depend on it as a kind of law-enforcing mechanism, and that may be the scariest thing of all.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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By examining which social responses are most sensitive to psilocybin, researchers may be able to uncover biological mechanisms that are difficult to investigate directly in people.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Ruter has since introduced mechanisms enabling it to monitor and delay incoming signals in order to control updates, it said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
We can be fairly certain that any cooperation between the museum and the film production came with the understanding that no actual security mechanisms would even be hinted at.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
She added that feelings of blame and guilt were "very common" during bereavement and could lead to "destructive" coping mechanisms.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Finally, I did something I’d been dying to do for the past week—I disabled the locking mechanisms on both devices.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Power Suffix: -ism
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