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- noun Plural form of
mechanism .
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Examples
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Arguing the details of the mechanisms is a major pastime of Evolutionary Biologists.
Behe Responds 2007
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In talking with the national security folks, they are going to be sending us what they call mechanisms in regards to what they think is appropriate and not appropriate.
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It should be able to seek accommodation through the twin mechanisms of translation and cultural pluralism.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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Actually, modern US vending machines have electronic coin mechanisms that have a dip switch that can be set to accept or reject Canadian coins.
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It should be able to seek accommodation through the twin mechanisms of translation and cultural pluralism.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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It should be able to seek accommodation through the twin mechanisms of translation and cultural pluralism.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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Though changing funding mechanisms is the primary point of the initiative, there are a number of other "policy levers" the participants are suggesting that their state lawmakers can use to improve the delivery of developmental education.
6 states aim to reform remedial programs at community colleges 2010
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It glosses over the extent to which such things are designed to actively structure thought, appropriating wonder to the service of moral, social and practical purposes, using it as fuel in mechanisms of power.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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But our publication mechanisms is dead, broken, disconnected.
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It should be able to seek accommodation through the twin mechanisms of translation and cultural pluralism.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization David Shasha 2010
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