machinations

Example Sentences

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"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

But Jane was enough to drive a machinating husband to despair.

From Cinderella Jane by Cooke, Marjorie Benton