machine
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These companies sit in different countries and different indexes, yet they all feed the same machine.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan refers to herself as the “frozen yogurt justice” and even had a fro-yo machine installed in the court’s canteen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
“For the safety of staff and the community, we’re keeping the store closed for the time being,” an employee said in a recording on its answering machine Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Goal machine Haaland led the Norway fans in their now infamous Viking row following their big win over Brazil.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Tomás was at least ten years older than his father, but he was a building machine.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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Engineers often use the same approach to test whether bridges, buildings, and machines can withstand stress.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Amid the clamour of the machines, Fode Yattabare recounted to AFP how his company Kaera started in a small apartment in the late 2000s.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Legacy uses the same general-purpose machines available to other businesses willing to invest in the equipment, and no printers are marketed exclusively for Hollywood, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Inside more than a dozen North American plants, some 20,000 employees run machines that cut, wash and package raw vegetables like cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, or assemble veggie snack kits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The machines are built to work like Enigmas.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
“The foundation of the sound capture is still better than anything else that you would find today. The products that were put into use and the way that it was machined … it’s unmatched.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
Two days before Christmas 1937, a load of 196 tons of steel was delivered to the Moore Dry Dock Company on the Oakland waterfront, to be machined into the Crocker Cracker’s huge magnet.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Francesco Sciortino, CEO of Proxima, said European suppliers still dominate in areas it depends on, like precision machining and high-end steelmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
This matters for Proxima which uses a very expensive type of steel in its magnets, which needs machining to a high level accuracy.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Our 737 program is performing rework on a group of airplanes to fix wires that have small scratches due to a machining error,” a Boeing spokesperson said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Patterson argued that the court should allow ATF to regulate only firearms that have been completed with “critical machining operations.”
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2024
“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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