machine
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James would join a roster that already includes charismatic star Anthony Edwards, French tall man Rudy Gobert, and erratic shooting machine LaMelo Ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Alphabet was once a cash-flow machine, but it’s seeing a fall from grace.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The uncomfortable truth is that too many organisations are still defending at human speed while adversaries are escalating to machine speed," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Wallace said she also found red stains on the mats, a nearby rowing machine and a Tesla charging plug.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Wall Street is reckoning with a new reality: The biggest tech companies are no longer cash-printing machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
Officers approach people seated inside machines capable of rapid movement.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
A hundred rats had chased him farther into the landfill, to where human machines screamed and scraped in the trash heaps.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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 material bonds to copper using only heat and pressure, and its components can be machined with widely available equipment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 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
The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
Boeing traced the problem to a machining error.
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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