machination

Example Sentences

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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

But eventfulness and machination have always been the hallmark of “Downton Abbey,” not acting.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2019

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

Of what terrible machination was she the victim?

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules