machine
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Filming will take place inside and outside the building over several weeks, with a rain machine due to be used for one scene.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
"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
The bonds of yesterday, a machine challenge to mathematics, Cormac McCarthy’s mythic America and more.
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’s got this theory that any cipher written by a machine can be broken by a machine.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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He contends that when hotels circulate synthetic fragrances through scent dispersion machines, they may be spreading toxic chemicals, potentially causing respiratory problems, headaches, skin irritation and gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and cognitive problems among vulnerable guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
Obviously washing machines, refrigerators and sedans don’t threaten American sovereignty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
She tuned up the machines, she made fertilizer from old grass clippings and manure, she planned which crops would be seeded in which fields.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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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
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
It makes me think of myself as even partially machined — like these are the extensions of me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Every piece of equipment had to be machined to the most demanding specifications and designed for the heaviest duty.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
The plane manufacturer said Tuesday it found scratched wiring in undelivered planes and traced the problem to a machining error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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
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