machination

Example Sentences

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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

But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

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

The pope becoming acquainted with this secret machination, set about to counteract it.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John