machination
Example Sentences
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The ensuing machinations would bore you to tears, but after only a year political gravity has reasserted itself.
Not with the glamour of a ‘Hunger Games’ spectacle, but the machinations of the state are the same.
From Los Angeles Times
This week WBD admitted the obvious: The Ellison machinations had put the company in play, which was expected sooner or later anyway.
Learning about all the behind-the-scenes machinations that brought Sasaki from an injured, defeated rookie to the postseason MVP and Dodgers’ season savior was fascinating and gives me a deeper appreciation for the struggles he faces.
From Los Angeles Times
Alma was always someone who lived a life of the mind and lived a life of many machinations, and, therefore, was calculating and precise, and also deeply contradictory and steeped in a sense of self-denialism.
From Salon
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