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"You want to see what it looks like ten years in the future? Tuvalu is a time machine for Australia."

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Olesya Mygal bends over her 4-year-old daughter, Sofiyka, who is sleeping on a makeshift bed in the family’s bathroom, squeezed between the sink, toilet and washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Yet reading “The Proof in the Code,” which takes the reader right up to the threshold of current breakthroughs, I was struck as much by the limitations of machine mathematics as by its power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Apollo and humanoids like it require critical machine components known as actuators that are hard to come by in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

He knows all about it because the company that made the steel cables for the bridge also made the cables for the machine he will use to stand the obelisk up in Central Park.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Modern life turns out to be, among other things, a vast congregation of machines taking one another’s word for what time it is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

This can include lifting weights such as dumbbells, using gym machines or resistance bands, or using your own body weight in exercises such as squats, step-ups or press-ups.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

This season, Yerxa said he’s paying roughly double for the diesel he uses to power the farm’s tractors, combines, harvesters and dozens of other heavy-duty machines.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Robot crews methodically worked the crops and fed the animals and operated the massive farm machines.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

“The foundation of the sound capture is still better than anything else that you would find today. The products that were put into use and the way that it was machined … it’s unmatched.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Francesco Sciortino, CEO of Proxima, said European suppliers still dominate in areas it depends on, like precision machining and high-end steelmaking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Our 737 program is performing rework on a group of airplanes to fix wires that have small scratches due to a machining error,” a Boeing spokesperson said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Patterson argued that the court should allow ATF to regulate only firearms that have been completed with “critical machining operations.”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2024

“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam