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machinery

[muh-shee-nuh-ree] / məˈʃi nə ri /


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The EU's trade enforcement chief, Denis Redonnet, said sectors facing "sustained and abnormal" import increases included machinery, textiles, basic metals and chemicals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

That we engineered dogs to communicate successfully with us doesn’t mean the machinery inside their heads works like ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fundamental support for those stocks is broadening out, with manufacturing backlogs ramping up across machinery, fabricated metals and other categories, and manufacturing data showing a buildup in orders, strategists said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Those proteins play an important role in metabolism because they help move other molecules into mitochondria, where they can be used as part of the cell's energy producing machinery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

He told me I should never feel beholden to him or to the machinery of the campaign.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

This study will pave the way for new treatments of diseases caused by faulty epigenetic machineries.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

Export growth of machineries and hi-tech products were strong.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2021

Something is broken in our system if the machineries of war endure all strategies and policy changes, if only for the sake of enduring.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018

It should also cause us to ask hard questions about our “technologies” of research ethics—the machineries of evaluation that experiments must pass through.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2018

It is all clangings and bangings as tiles are spat out by big machineries onto what is called a conveyor belt.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads




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