deus ex machina
Example Sentences
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Roth paints a dreary portrait of how that scenario could have played out, but the horrors are resolved by something of a deus ex machina rather than by any one character’s bold, heroic actions.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025
With truth under assault and accountability seemingly non-existent, a billion-dollar bullhorn sharing micro-targeted messages on multiple platforms may not be an ideal deus ex machina, but it is the one our info-siloed public square demands.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024
“Perhaps the deus ex machina here is AI.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023
When Seven and Raffi figure out a way to transport assimilated crew members off the bridge using phaser rifles, it’s quite the deus ex machina.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
The happy end brought about by a divinity, the deus ex machina, is a common device with Euripides alone of the three tragic poets.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
