god in the machine
Example Sentences
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Instead of blanket-dismissing tech entrepreneurs or wholesale manifesting a god in the machine, Pope Leo has sought a careful, studied, moral middle ground: one that encourages technological progress but upholds human dignity above all.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
We’ve been the god in the machine all along.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021
Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2019
There must have been, and must be a central god in the machine of each animate corpus.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
