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machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
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His research included groundbreaking work on machine learning and earned him a Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, considered by many to be the highest honor in statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

I also have a big X-ray machine downstairs in my office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Taken together, these photos and emojis and sentence fragments represented a schematic for the machine that had kept me alive.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

There was also a built-in Wolf coffee machine and a top-of-the line Kohler toilet the actor compared to a “Transformer.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

In Michael’s apartment, the Rosarios’ answering machine blinked with a single message.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

These effects could eventually enable quantum machines to tackle certain extremely complicated calculations much faster than conventional computers, including some problems that are currently beyond their practical capabilities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

As in most MCU stories, they must eventually attempt to save humanity but their wit, ability, heroism and willingness to sacrifice themselves make the best argument, since “Wall-E,” for machines being better than people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

The big risk we face is to shared humanity—that we will begin to expect other humans to treat us with the same level of obsession and focus we can get from machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Aziz, who also established The Sicilian restaurant, developed the machines using mostly locally manufactured parts, designing their circuit boards and programming them in his own lab.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Back then most people didn’t have washing machines, so Mama washed clothes by hand in a big green tub.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The group’s experts had in late 2024 documented imports of similar custom-made machined parts for the shorter-range Sadr missile, although it isn’t known who supplied those materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The monitor had been designed with screws in the back that had 25 concentric circles machined into their flat heads to make them sparkle as light passed over them.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

The material bonds to copper using only heat and pressure, and its components can be machined with widely available equipment.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026

The carbon fibre hull had titanium domes fitted on each end, but he said the metal had been machined incorrectly.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

Every piece of equipment had to be machined to the most demanding specifications and designed for the heaviest duty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

This shift is driving investment in capacity and skill-building into precision machining and tooling, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Boeing traced the problem to a machining error.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

Patterson argued that the court should allow ATF to regulate only firearms that have been completed with “critical machining operations.”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2024

“So I guess you’re an expert at welding and machining now,” he said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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