inner workings
Example Sentences
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Guerra said it was like "hitting the jackpot", uncovering the inner workings of a vast, underground system.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
With its jokes about the inner workings of Hollywood agents at CAA and the trappings of fame and fortune, “Gail Daughtry” could easily feel like inside baseball.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was concern in that group that its inner workings should be hidden from the public because, as the executive order put it, certain proposed solutions “will be ineffective if commonly known.”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Those recordings offer rare access into the inner workings of a fraud and the psychological tactics of a master of deception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Theoretical physicists were the explorers of their day, using imagination and mind-bending math to dig deeper and deeper into the surprising inner workings of atoms.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
