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machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
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The team combined traditional paleontological techniques with machine learning models that account for evolutionary relationships.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The agents in the vending machine experiment didn’t “go rogue.”

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Oh, crap,” thought Stafford, a quality inspector at a machine shop in this East Texas city known as the Rose Capital of America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

With the APC holding 31 out of Nigeria's 36 powerful governorships, Tinubu, known as a skilled political operator, has a vast political machine at his disposal.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

We were given desks near each other and were each given a calculating machine.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

As companies rely more on sensors and data to track machines and spot potential problems, they need analysts to sift through the numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Such machines, known as fault-tolerant quantum computers, will require precise, dependable control over large numbers of qubits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Beyond demonstrating a new approach to biohybrid robotics, the technology could eventually be useful for monitoring aquatic environments or operating in locations where conventional rigid machines might cause damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

The problem is that, if machines do start to take over, there will be little workers can do about.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

There were a few food machines hanging on one side of the pen fence.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

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

Two days before Christmas 1937, a load of 196 tons of steel was delivered to the Moore Dry Dock Company on the Oakland waterfront, to be machined into the Crocker Cracker’s huge magnet.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in applications that demand extreme hardness and resistance to wear, including cutting tools, drills, machining equipment, and construction tools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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