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machine

noun as in well-run political organization

noun as in person who acts automatically

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The protagonist, a spirited textile mill worker played by Sally Field, demands improvements like a Kotex machine in the women’s bathroom before ultimately leading a unionization effort.

But the real frontier of robotics isn’t about building machines that look like us—it’s about designing ones that quietly make our industries more efficient.

“She would use all these lessons,” Ms. Rinehart writes, “to build a grassroots machine unlike any Montana had ever seen.”

"A major issue with machine learning is catastrophic interference," Tafazoli said.

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And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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