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machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
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Taken together, these photos and emojis and sentence fragments represented a schematic for the machine that had kept me alive.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

A more plausible, and even bigger, prize involves a money machine hospitals have come to rely on, but could soon face curbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

There was also a built-in Wolf coffee machine and a top-of-the line Kohler toilet the actor compared to a “Transformer.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Baillie was thrust into the spotlight in 2008 when Brand and Jonathan Ross left offensive messages about her on her grandfather's answering machine during a Radio 2 broadcast.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

“She’s been using her machine all day,” I tell the woman with the nebulizer.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Dave said he had considered adding games machines to the bunker when finished, but added it would sadly not be wide enough for a pool table.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Increasingly, I see the interiority unique to humans being ascribed to machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

The Board added in a later statement that the technical error was linked to voting machines being unable to read and accept the ballots.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

That’s because it always has been easier to do so when we think of machines as animate objects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The control room was filled with computers that kept track of the Juggernaut’s engines and machines and systems.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

WC-Co cemented carbides are widely used in applications that demand extreme hardness and resistance to wear, including cutting tools, drills, machining equipment, and construction tools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Boeing traced the problem to a machining error.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

The plane manufacturer said Tuesday it found scratched wiring in undelivered planes and traced the problem to a machining error.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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