mechanistic
adjective
mech·a·nis·tic
ˌme-kə-ˈni-stik 
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This finding provides mechanistic insights into aspirin’s anti-metastatic activity and paves the way for the development of more effective immunotherapies.
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Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2025
More broadly, policymakers and strategists need to move past their emphasis on achieving particular end states, since that springs from a mechanistic and ahistorical view of how politics works.
—Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
According to Clifton’s surveys, 20% of U.S. citizens see the world as a bad place—namely, as dangerous, dull and mechanistic.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Reasons Why Human Transmission Is Low There’s also some epidemiological reasons that back up these mechanistic barriers to infection in humans.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2025
More broadly, policymakers and strategists need to move past their emphasis on achieving particular end states, since that springs from a mechanistic and ahistorical view of how politics works.
—Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
According to Clifton’s surveys, 20% of U.S. citizens see the world as a bad place—namely, as dangerous, dull and mechanistic.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Reasons Why Human Transmission Is Low There’s also some epidemiological reasons that back up these mechanistic barriers to infection in humans.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Mechanistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanistic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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