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Nor is there anything inherently noble about making employees spend eight hours deciphering orders shouted through crackling speakers while the ice-cream machine is down and a small diplomatic crisis is unfolding in the PlayPlace.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

The tariff on one machine Jergens is buying tops $200,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

In that proof of concept study, researchers analyzed walking data from 10 healthy adults and demonstrated that a machine learning system could track changes in estimated knee forces across different walking patterns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

"It's been difficult for businesses to manage," Miller told AFP from his factory floor in Warren as a machine hummed nearby, cutting countertop material.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

“There was only one logical explanation. The Germans had begun using a machine to generate ciphers.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

I wonder whether we’ve also begun expecting humans to behave more like machines.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

But 25-year-old Vinny Mauri uses standard Planet Fitness machines for the bulk of his training.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

One particularly striking finding concerns tungsten, an extremely heat-resistant metal selected for the interior walls of more than a dozen next-generation fusion machines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

In a sermon delivered in Italian on Thursday at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the pope suggested machines lack a soul, saying they merely "compile data" quickly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

But the TV stayed on, leaving me no choice but to watch a string of commercials for car waxes, weight-reducing programs, exercise machines and “Red-Hot Harmonica Classics.”

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

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

This matters for Proxima which uses a very expensive type of steel in its magnets, which needs machining to a high level accuracy.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

“Our 737 program is performing rework on a group of airplanes to fix wires that have small scratches due to a machining error,” a Boeing spokesperson said.

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

Patterson argued that the court should allow ATF to regulate only firearms that have been completed with “critical machining operations.”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2024

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

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam