machinate

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, Manoeuvring misses me misween; Mere money may make many mate, My magic motto's—'Madeline!'

From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous

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 angel said to Joseph, "They are dead who machinated against the child's life."

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

The Armadillos were as shadows of a dark, machinated dream.

From Oberheim (Voices) by Christopher Leadem

"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

But college enrollment had exploded in the ‘60s; there was now a mass audience eager to see itself in Benjamin, the “graduate” who steals his life back from the machinating hypocrites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021

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