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.
It’s easy, amid all the petulance and political machinations, to forget the essentials of the case against the former chief executive.
From Los Angeles Times
Wayne T. Carr, wearing a lumpy costume by designer Dana Rebecca Woods that slips past existing taxonomies, doesn’t play down the character’s sinister machinations.
From Los Angeles Times
And in each case, Steel makes a point of focusing as much on the psychology of the victims as on its leader, gently unpacking the factors that can make people susceptible to the cult’s machinations.
From New York Times
It is one in which the characters, even the bull, are subject not to the whims of gods and metaphors but to their own compulsions and machinations.
From New York Times
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