machinate

Example Sentences

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Ms. Johansson defended herself by arguing that the character “has a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” and said, “I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017

It urges those who work in it to agglutinate and machinate.

From Economist • Oct. 27, 2016

But that leaves plenty of legislative detail, if the Lib Dems machinate wisely, for the two parties to find common cause over.

From Economist • Jun. 11, 2015

And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He therefore voluntarily offered to call an Ukuku meeting and have a law enacted that no one should machinate against the Benga’s life by fetiches of any kind.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill