machination
Example Sentences
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Auto-parts retailers provide some of the clearest examples of how such machinations burnish companies’ numbers.
But the film itself is far from your average rom-com, more interested in the mechanics and machinations of modern dating than its lovable foibles.
From Salon
The ensuing machinations would bore you to tears, but after only a year political gravity has reasserted itself.
Not with the glamour of a ‘Hunger Games’ spectacle, but the machinations of the state are the same.
From Los Angeles Times
This week WBD admitted the obvious: The Ellison machinations had put the company in play, which was expected sooner or later anyway.
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