god in the machine

Example Sentences

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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

"And—I'm afraid—I—made myself into a kind of—of matchmaker—or god in the machine, or something of that sort."

From Christina by Moberly, L. G.

Now and then a girl or a man was kept for several moments talking to a person whom Win could not yet see; a kind of god in the machine.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)