machination
Example Sentences
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The ensuing machinations would bore you to tears, but after only a year political gravity has reasserted itself.
Her face is never clearly shown, to emphasize that Dorothy is merely a useful but clueless pawn in the political machinations of Oz.
From Barron's
Mr. Strong’s book dives into the political machinations behind the chess face-off in deliberate detail—Florence, born in Communist Hungary, is threatened by Walter with deportation if she doesn’t get Freddie to lose the match.
Not with the glamour of a ‘Hunger Games’ spectacle, but the machinations of the state are the same.
From Los Angeles Times
This week WBD admitted the obvious: The Ellison machinations had put the company in play, which was expected sooner or later anyway.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
