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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

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

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

For South Africa, the move to mechanize marks another gyration for an industry trapped between tumbling prices and surging production costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2015

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

Blue-collar workers globally have reckoned with growing levels of automation, from mechanized arms welding sheet metal to mixing paint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

Sybilla Masters, who lived in colonial Pennsylvania, invented machinery that mechanized the time-consuming, arduous task of pounding corn by hand into usable meal or flour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

A mechanized surge of machinery sounded from outside, followed by the familiar rolling clicks of a Griever on the stony ground, as if someone had scattered a handful of nails.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

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