machinate
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Ms. Johansson defended herself by arguing that the character “has a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” and said, “I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
It urges those who work in it to agglutinate and machinate.
From Economist ● Oct. 27, 2016
But that leaves plenty of legislative detail, if the Lib Dems machinate wisely, for the two parties to find common cause over.
From Economist ● Jun. 11, 2015
And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Match-making mas may machinate, Manœuvring misses me mis-ween; Mere money may make many mate, My magic motto's "Madeline!"
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
While the image was almost certainly stage-managed, "it wasn't completely machinated or fabricated," says Mr Madden, who is with the US-Korea Institute at John Hopkins University.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2017
"It was more a signal of allowance and encouragement than something completely machinated by an image maker."
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2017
His influence over Wilson was early supplanted by Colonel House, who pulled strings, machinated quietly, buzzed around in one department after the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Armadillos were as shadows of a dark, machinated dream.
From Oberheim (Voices) by Christopher Leadem
Kitty was still the stalking-horse behind which, for whatever reasons, he machinated.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"I was not going to allow a day of any further machinating and web-weaving around me because I've had enough," she declared, before telling Rachel in front of everyone: "I'm onto you."
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
Do we really want to incentivize vigilantes like YouTube copycat Skeet Hansen, seen in the documentary machinating and uploading his own stakeouts, pitiful farces of justice with the catchphrase “You’ve just been Skeeted”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
But my father, meanwhile, I didn’t know this at the time, was busy machinating on behalf of the United States to keep the oil flowing to the West.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2020
But hustlers have a nasty side. ’s characters are striving and machinating and tortured, and yet so beloved by Russell they are never in any real danger.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2014
He was continually plotting, contriving, machinating in the dark, with a childish fear of being caught with his hand in the bag.
From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee
