mechanize
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Paris’s enormous science and technology museum is a reminder of France’s role in helping the world modernize and mechanize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
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
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
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
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
Her machinery allowed households to produce meal more reliably and in greater quantities and supported the shift from subsistence hand-pounding to mechanized milling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
“Because the headline doesn’t really fit the facts. You don’t call a bunch of dead rats mechanized just because you find them on a shelf near a motor.”
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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The Chinese were trading in paper currency, mechanizing the fabric industry, burning coal and producing steel long before the Europeans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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The Modern Period, c. 1750 to c. 1914
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