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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones.
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By the time of the Romantics, one hundred fifty years later, the mechanistic worldview had spread much further.
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Cost effectiveness estimates should not be used in a mechanistic fashion; at best they provide a useful aid for decision making.
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One they describe as mechanistic , the other as organic.
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The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation.
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The universe is far more nonlinear than the mechanistic worldview has allowed us to see.
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We have seen the mechanistic thrust of literacy discourse in the past five years.
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Whenever observations emerged that did not fit the mechanistic model, they were dismissed as insignificant anomalies.