mechanize
verb
mech·a·nize
ˈme-kə-ˌnīz 
mechanized; mechanizing
1
: to make mechanical
especially
: to make automatic or routine
2
a
: to equip with machinery especially to replace human or animal labor
b
: to equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
c
: to provide with mechanical power
3
: to produce by or as if by machine
Examples of mechanize in a Sentence
an invention that helped to mechanize agriculture
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Around 1950, cranberry harvesting began to be mechanized, marking a shift toward mass production of the fruit.
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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.
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Inventors like Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves had mechanized spinning with various contraptions, but weaving initially remained too complex to automate.
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 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
Inventors like Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves had mechanized spinning with various contraptions, but weaving initially remained too complex to automate.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
As astronomy further mechanized and photography proliferated, the Leviathan became less useful.
—Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 15 Mar. 2025
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mechanize
verb
mech·a·nize
ˈmek-ə-ˌnīz
mechanized; mechanizing
1
: to make mechanical
especially
: to make automatic
2
a
: to equip with machinery especially to replace human or animal labor
b
: to equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
mechanized infantry
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