How to Use mechanize in a Sentence

mechanize

verb
  • And more to the point, who in her right mind would want to mechanize them?
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • While some farm work is being mechanized, most produce is still hand-picked.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 May 2018
  • In Asia, more trades are carried out over-the-counter, which are difficult to mechanize.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2019
  • In this interview, Martin talks about that barbecue style, his new show launching next month, and what is lost when cooking gets mechanized.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 25 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enter Bob Born—Sam’s son—who mechanized the process, slashing production time down to just six minutes per Peep.
    — Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • There have been attempts to standardize and mechanize dry stone walling, using, for example, software and a robotic excavator.
    — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
  • So specific computing devices have always been around to mechanize computation to some extent.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The one chore that remains stubbornly difficult to mechanize, however, is the physical grasping of products.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Instead of creating robots to perform human labor, people build apps to mechanize human abilities.
    — Diana M. Pho, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • By the late nineteenth century, the majority of Nottingham’s lace production had been mechanized.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Around 1950, cranberry harvesting began to be mechanized, marking a shift toward mass production of the fruit.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Other growers are trying industrial-scale greenhouses, indoor beds of soil in massive warehouses and special robots to mechanize parts of the farming process.
    — Melina Walling, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those include older operations that industry experts say are nearly impossible to mechanize.
    — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The industrial revolution mechanized agriculture, pushing workers off farms and into cities.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The windfall enabled him to modernize rural Iraq, distributing land to farmers and mechanizing agricultural production.
    — Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2011
  • 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
  • What started as a retired engineer with $5,000 and a dream of mechanizing the human heart is now a $46 billion company that has helped treat more than two million cardiac patients worldwide.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production.
    — Klaus Schwab, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As astronomy further mechanized and photography proliferated, the Leviathan became less useful.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 15 Mar. 2025
  • What is happening to Hollywood is part of a bigger context; a cognitive industrial revolution that is being defined by the use of AI to produce thinking machines that are mechanizing the human mind.
    — Dr. Jonathan Reichental, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • From using fire to dispel the fear of darkness to mechanizing agriculture to guarantee food abundance, humanity’s innovations have consistently aimed to turn uncertainty into something controllable and predictable on a global scale.
    — Dr. Mithu Storoni, TIME, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Leibniz’s other pitches to the Duke included a system of disaster insurance, techniques for mechanizing silk production, various medicinal remedies, improved watches, and designs for a novel kind of wagon.
    — Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025

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