machination

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Both follow the news obsessively, tracking every machination in the former president’s legal drama.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

All of this happens while victims’ families wait for justice, essentially as observers to the legal machination and maneuvers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

On Saturday, he said in a statement that he was the “victim of a machination against me.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021

The machination of an enemy became more apparent when, upon an investigation into the condition of Butler's pistols, they were also found incapable of being used.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton