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
But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022
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
I was about to laugh again at the artless mixture in her of expansive unworldliness and quite astute machination when suddenly I thought better of it, and turned away.
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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