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

As machination piled upon machination, and as the case became solely about Mr. Donziger, one party has been largely forgotten: the Ecuadorean tribespeople he once represented.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2021

Another strange Pentagon machination was the proposal Miller floated in mid-December to separate the code-breaking National Security Agency from U.S.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2020

The protest of the church was of no avail to defeat the machination of demagogues.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey