machine
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Turing played a crucial role in the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two by helping to crack codes and deciphering the infamous Enigma machine at Bletchley Park.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
A machine trained in this way would open new possibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Alphabet was once a cash-flow machine, but it’s seeing a fall from grace.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Le Porge's mayor Martial Zaninetti said the fire could have been started by a machine used to clear forest track but this is yet to be officially confirmed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“But we can’t do the same. We see BER KLW in the message preamble. But if we set our machine to BER and type in KLW, we don’t get THA.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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XPeng has spent eight years developing them, opting for what he described as the “hard path” by producing humanoid machines instead of industrial-automation equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Many firms already offer this as part of their subscription services, including giants Sony and Microsoft, but people continue to favour installing games on their own machines.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The sleek, futuristic-looking, white and yellow vehicle boasts solar panels on the roof that power its engine but also medical devices from x-ray machines to defibrillators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The machines that turn it into fuel are screaming either way.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
I don’t want to see the tubes and machines.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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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
Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
It lay heavily in her hands, the crystal face gleaming, the golden body exquisitely machined.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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This shift is driving investment in capacity and skill-building into precision machining and tooling, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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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