mechanistic
adjective
mech·a·nis·tic
ˌme-kə-ˈni-stik 
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Nevertheless, the enormous effort behind the culture collection is paying off by allowing detailed mechanistic studies of what different species of pyrophilous fungi can actually do.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2024
And in the finale, Heyward played up the contrast between Lee’s mechanistic churn and Bryant’s sinuous figuration.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
Is its movement just a mechanistic response with no feeling behind it?
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
By refusing to treat opium (or the planet, or nutmeg) as inert matter, Ghosh is resisting the mechanistic mind-set, dating from the violence of colonial conquest, which reduces our complex world to resources for human use.
—Delia Falconer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2024
And in the finale, Heyward played up the contrast between Lee’s mechanistic churn and Bryant’s sinuous figuration.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
Is its movement just a mechanistic response with no feeling behind it?
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
By refusing to treat opium (or the planet, or nutmeg) as inert matter, Ghosh is resisting the mechanistic mind-set, dating from the violence of colonial conquest, which reduces our complex world to resources for human use.
—Delia Falconer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for mechanistic
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“Mechanistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanistic. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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