machination
Example Sentences
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You can feel how desperate Cathy and Heathcliff are for each other in their own twisted way, and despite their horrible machinations you want them to be together.
From Los Angeles Times
The pair sued the city in 2024, accusing the city of “backdoor machinations” in preserving a house that doesn’t deserve to be a historic cultural monument.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, for Labour, after all the questions for them over the weekend about the machinations involving the prime minister and Andy Burnham, a chance to reflect on rows on the Right of politics.
From BBC
I found myself transfixed by the description of Wall Street machinations.
Auto-parts retailers provide some of the clearest examples of how such machinations burnish companies’ numbers.
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