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machine

[muh-sheen] / məˈʃin /


NOUN
well-run political organization
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Everyone is touting products, armed with a portable card machine.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Then, the piled money into AI as machine learning promised to open the door to an even more profitable future.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

She packs as many as a dozen in a reusable container from Farmers Fridge, her airport vending machine go-to for a chia pudding fix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"We are working on ways to integrate machine learning into excited states calculations to further improve the efficiency of our method," Villani said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

John tinkers with the Enigma machine we keep in the room.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

At one two-hour sermon he preaches messages of self-improvement to an emotional crowd of hundreds, interrupted occasionally for live music interludes and breaks to collect money with card machines.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The sacred silence of formal dining rooms is being drowned out by bowling alleys and frozen-margarita machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Beyond demonstrating a new approach to biohybrid robotics, the technology could eventually be useful for monitoring aquatic environments or operating in locations where conventional rigid machines might cause damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

As inflation weighs on Japanese households, huge arcades on the outskirts of major cities are installing claw machines filled with eggs, rice, laundry detergent and other necessities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The peaceful morning was suddenly jolted by the sounds of power tools as Roz began fixing the machines.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we’re missing the value of human irregularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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

Among the group's precision machined elements are flexures -- spring-like devices, often made from parallel beams, that can flex and stretch with nanometer precision.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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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