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

As machination piled upon machination, and as the case became solely about Mr. Donziger, one party has been largely forgotten: the Ecuadorean tribespeople he once represented.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021

Through the machination of the general managers, the courts and the press and the Benedict Arnolds of labor, the cause of the railroad corporations was beginning to triumph.

From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by Burns, W. F.