mechanism
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However, the same mechanism could become harmful if it is no longer properly controlled.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
This mechanism allows them to sell more shares than the offering sizes and buy that same amount, either from the market or the company, to deliver them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Different examiners, same mechanism: Use a regulator’s discretion to make disfavored activity expensive enough that the private institution does the discriminating for you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Death imagery as a bulwark against fear of death is so well known that it is covered under the psychological umbrella of Terror Management Theory as a coping mechanism.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
Selecting phenotypes was going to be a flawed mechanism to guarantee genetic selection.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Platforms are required to deploy systems to recognise extreme emotions and to implement crisis intervention mechanisms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
It is one of the few public accountability mechanisms that the Fed participates in where the focus is mostly on monetary policy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
The researchers found that this happens through two separate mechanisms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Since then, state leaders have established oversight mechanisms through laws that allow for monitoring and investigation of detention centers by the California Department of Justice and local health authorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
They lacked political and social mechanisms, which we take for granted, to achieve peaceful resolution of serious disputes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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