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machination

[mak-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌmæk əˈneɪ ʃən /


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The raven and a “silent partner” then snatched the helpless goslings and devoured them—a machination to make Poe proud.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

It seems more dedicated to machination than to meditation, more focused on struggle than on serenity.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2015

Paul got knowledge of their machination, and the christians took him, and let him down over the wall in a basket.

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 Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham




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