machination
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Both follow the news obsessively, tracking every machination in the former president’s legal drama.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023
All of this happens while victims’ families wait for justice, essentially as observers to the legal machination and maneuvers.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
On Saturday, he said in a statement that he was the “victim of a machination against me.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021
The film is transparent in the sense that you can see through everything it's doing, and it's so brazen about each machination that you can't help laughing.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2011
He never dared to tell Clement of this last machination of the evil one; for Clement would have raised a fresh hue and cry.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
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