rube
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This, of course, is an example of a Rube Goldberg machine—an overly complex mechanism that performs a simple task.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
The first Negro National League was founded in 1920 by Rube Foster, a black manager and team owner who had been a star pitcher; it lasted for about a decade before folding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
When ARID1A is mutated, a microscopic chain of events analogous to a Rube Goldberg machine is set off in the cancer cell.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
I feel like I'm in an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption that someone else designed.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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Inherit the Wind
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