deus ex machina
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For Apple, as for Jobs, the whole episode involved the kind of deus ex machina you could never get away with in fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025
A kind of deus ex machina, he pops into the novel at key points, offering incredible amounts of money like a possibly sinister fairy godmother in a Brothers Grimm tale.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
With truth under assault and accountability seemingly non-existent, a billion-dollar bullhorn sharing micro-targeted messages on multiple platforms may not be an ideal deus ex machina, but it is the one our info-siloed public square demands.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024
“A deus ex machina, then, in a double sense,” said Dr. Calvin, dryly.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
