machination
Example Sentences
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The pair sued the city in 2024, accusing the city of “backdoor machinations” in preserving a house that doesn’t deserve to be a historic cultural monument.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, for Labour, after all the questions for them over the weekend about the machinations involving the prime minister and Andy Burnham, a chance to reflect on rows on the Right of politics.
From BBC
I found myself transfixed by the description of Wall Street machinations.
Auto-parts retailers provide some of the clearest examples of how such machinations burnish companies’ numbers.
But the film itself is far from your average rom-com, more interested in the mechanics and machinations of modern dating than its lovable foibles.
From Salon
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