contraption
Example Sentences
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The object of Mouse Trap, a board game featuring a Rube Goldberg-style contraption, is to catch plastic mice.
"One was for the haemorrhage machine," she recalls, describing a contraption which recreates post-birth blood loss.
From BBC
They are already reportedly chafing at the Musk "DOGE" contraption since budgeting really is their bailiwick and they want to do the cutting themselves.
From Salon
Last year's Tears of the Kingdom, for example, allowed players to build strange contraptions and led to memorable creations such as a giant robotic Godzilla.
From BBC
The team retrieved it using a contraption made from a rope and a broom handle.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
