How to Use mechanize in a Sentence
mechanize
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And more to the point, who in her right mind would want to mechanize them?
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
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In Asia, more trades are carried out over-the-counter, which are difficult to mechanize.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2019
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While some farm work is being mechanized, most produce is still hand-picked.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 May 2018
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First, much of the war has been mechanized with Russians and Ukrainian units engaging each other at a distance with tank and artillery fire.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
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If a country was mechanizing its farms, German companies like Claas made the tractors and grain harvesters.
—Jack Ewing, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2016
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The new legal startups have simply mechanized that process via AI—but the result is that the decisions of law and justice are now turning on who has the biggest computer with the best algorithm.
—Noam Cohen, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
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This view, though, is at odds with the imperative to instrument and mechanize operations of all sorts wherever they are found.
—E. Paul Zehr, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2015
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Chris Cook, who manages a farm not far from Mr. Seccombe’s, decided to mechanize nut-knocking after being asked by his boss to solve the problem of macadamia farming’s inefficiency.
—Mike Cherney, WSJ, 5 July 2017
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Unlike cotton, which was almost entirely mechanized in the Southeast by the 1970s, peaches were too delicate and ripeness too difficult to judge for mechanization to be a viable option.
—William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
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Unlike cotton, which was almost entirely mechanized in the Southeast by the 1970s, peaches were too delicate and ripeness too difficult to judge for mechanization to be a viable option.
—William Thomas Okie, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2017
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The search for artificial intelligence is, in essence, an attempt to mechanize the processes of reasoning that are characteristic of the human mind.
—Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
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With the growth of cities and the movement of families from rural to urban areas during the 19th century, more women began to work outside the home, and new technologies that mechanized milking allowed access at a lower cost than ever before.
—Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
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The collector had been trying to establish a museum on the history of computing, grounding his vision in the early attempts to mechanize computation by Jacquard, Babbage, and others.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2019
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All three adjacent townships started with oxen an important part of early operations, went to horses and started to really mechanize before the Civil War.
—Fred Keller, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2017
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Instead of creating robots to perform human labor, people build apps to mechanize human abilities.
—Diana M. Pho, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
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Plus One Robotics has raised $50 million to increase deployment of its parcel-handling robots to clients looking to mechanize operations in warehouses and distribution centers.
—Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2023
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Those include older operations that industry experts say are nearly impossible to mechanize.
—Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
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