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

But eventfulness and machination have always been the hallmark of “Downton Abbey,” not acting.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019

Every urchin in the village of Haxey had been blamed, at one time or other, for the base machination of setting "snickles," or nooses of wire, in the tailor's little garden.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas