workings

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It also highlights an underappreciated shift in the workings of the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Halfway up a 40-metre-high metal tower, the head of the refinery's technical division, Elise Thomazo, stops to explain the workings of the facility over the continuous hum of the machinery.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

Such a discovery has the potential to reshape our understanding of gravity, dark energy, and the fundamental workings of the Universe.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

As a result, the crisis "has thrown a proverbial wrench into the inner workings of the aviation fuel markets", it said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

With his acute sense of the ship’s inner workings, he should have been able to sniff out two stowaways as soon as they boarded.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee