machinate

Example Sentences

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“He’s been in power, he’s clung to power, he’s machinated to stay in power for all these years, and he’s an ethno-nationalist,” Levin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said of Netanyahu.

From Washington Post

In an email, he wrote, “Social justice warriors machinate to get speakers canceled, and social networks purge conservatives, for the same reason: no-platforming works.”

From New York Times

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

"I think this character is living a very unique experience, in that she is a human brain in an entirely machinate body," Johansson said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” earlier this week.

From Los Angeles Times

"It was more a signal of allowance and encouragement than something completely machinated by an image maker."

From BBC