machine
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We had arrived at the future, and it required a trip to the cash machine.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
When she insists the machine can perform any medical test, Fielder finds himself drawn into an absurd debate over the meaning of the word “can.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He suspected they’d be neither—his field had been using machine translation since the 1950s.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Large-calibre machine guns such as Brownings are also being fitted with computerized targeting to hit fast-moving objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A cloud passed, and the full glare of the sun fell on this year’s 1904 models of the Case Agitator threshing machine.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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In other words, identical behavior did not lead people to assign the same level of consciousness to humans and machines.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
His comments come after a BBC interview where he spoke about so-called safety breaks for AI systems controlling critical infrastructure or automated systems and said that washing machines are subject to more rules than AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Where the movies are big, loud, overpopulated machines, the TV series are full of interesting ideas, weird notions and good comedy and give their characters room to breathe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
These things are not mysterious machines that may disrupt the world in all kinds of ways.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
The machines are built to work like Enigmas.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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The group’s experts had in late 2024 documented imports of similar custom-made machined parts for the shorter-range Sadr missile, although it isn’t known who supplied those materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
The material bonds to copper using only heat and pressure, and its components can be machined with widely available equipment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 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
Cooksey’s new tank compiled everything the lab had learned about how to build a cyclotron into a rugged, gleaming, machined tank with glass insulators and arrangements for air and water cooling.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
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