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infernal machine

NOUN
time bomb
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While Marvel can seem “like this infernal machine that grinds on,” Bettany says, the projects are, in his experience, “incredibly collaborative.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

The brilliant “elephant,” lumbering and impressive like its African namesake, is an infernal machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

He needs others to work the levers of his infernal machine.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2018

It’s also been called the Rube Goldberg effect –– where you see the world as an infernal machine.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2011

“What is wrong with this infernal machine? And now another interruption! Where is that voice coming from?”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart