machination

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Both follow the news obsessively, tracking every machination in the former president’s legal drama.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

All of this happens while victims’ families wait for justice, essentially as observers to the legal machination and maneuvers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

On Saturday, he said in a statement that he was the “victim of a machination against me.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021

The film is transparent in the sense that you can see through everything it's doing, and it's so brazen about each machination that you can't help laughing.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2011

And even when I saw through the whole miserable machination of lying and duplicity I was actually in terror for Bruno lest he should betray you in the end.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir