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 eventfulness and machination have always been the hallmark of “Downton Abbey,” not acting.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019
The film is transparent in the sense that you can see through everything it's doing, and it's so brazen about each machination that you can't help laughing.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2011
No torture from his hand Nor any machination in the world Shall force mine utterance ere he loose, himself, These cankerous fetters from me.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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