machine gun
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Prodigy views her as a machine built to fulfill her creator’s whims.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025
Rather than a klein, a portable machine built for mobility, this was a hulking “standard” typewriter—35 pounds of iron and steel meant to be bolted to an office desk and stay there forever.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
Its faux electronic clock is permanently set to 1:16 a.m., the time Marty McFly arrives in the mall parking lot on a skateboard to see Doc Brown’s time machine built from a spruced-up DeLorean.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2023
The two dancers, accompanied by metronomic clicks and clangs, oscillated like parts of a machine built to do a pendular, hip-wagging dance like the floss.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2022
A strange machine, built years before, to talk to a ghost.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
