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machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
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"It is trading the gap between what companies earn today and what they still have to spend to keep the AI machine humming tomorrow."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

This approach describes the brain as a prediction machine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Micron has become a profit machine, as demand for memory chips has soared.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

Given what we’ve seen from the films he has worked on in the past, the machine is likely to be clunky — but that won’t matter to either party if it works.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Clare crept from the pine tree into a hedge of thorny bushes, five paces behind a boy dressed like a machine.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

It is far less clear how to adapt to a world where those companies market largely to machines and customer relationships are less direct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Around the same time, the ticket machines were proving similarly unreliable about accepting credit cards.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

In other words, identical behavior did not lead people to assign the same level of consciousness to humans and machines.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Where the movies are big, loud, overpopulated machines, the TV series are full of interesting ideas, weird notions and good comedy and give their characters room to breathe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

There were a few food machines hanging on one side of the pen fence.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene

The group’s experts had in late 2024 documented imports of similar custom-made machined parts for the shorter-range Sadr missile, although it isn’t known who supplied those materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

The material bonds to copper using only heat and pressure, and its components can be machined with widely available equipment.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026

The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Cooksey’s new tank compiled everything the lab had learned about how to build a cyclotron into a rugged, gleaming, machined tank with glass insulators and arrangements for air and water cooling.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

This shift is driving investment in capacity and skill-building into precision machining and tooling, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

This matters for Proxima which uses a very expensive type of steel in its magnets, which needs machining to a high level accuracy.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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


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