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machinery

[muh-shee-nuh-ree] / məˈʃi nə ri /


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Finlay highlighted the rising price of agricultural machinery, making it "more theft-attractive".

From BBC • May 30, 2026

These includes fortifying homes against wildfires, replanting fire-ravaged forests and thinning out vegetation with prescribed burns, goat grazing and manual thinning with heavy machinery to reduce the intensity of potential fires.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

But mining barons, whose operations have turned from true artisanal mining to multi-million dollar operations using large machinery and fleets of small planes, have adapted quickly.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

The machinery was imperfect, the politics were real, and those who lost were not always treated well—the history of what followed Nicaea is not uniformly edifying.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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