machinate

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Ms. Johansson defended herself by arguing that the character “has a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” and said, “I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2017

It urges those who work in it to agglutinate and machinate.

From Economist • Oct. 27, 2016

But that leaves plenty of legislative detail, if the Lib Dems machinate wisely, for the two parties to find common cause over.

From Economist • Jun. 11, 2015

And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He neither wished for war, nor dared he machinate for it; but with all his democratic soul he loved the cause which was convulsing the world from its ferocious centre in France.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn