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machinery

[muh-shee-nuh-ree] / məˈʃi nə ri /


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A Palestinian Civil Defense worker climbs onto a piece of heavy machinery to assist the operator in directing the recovery effort in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood on July 19.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The machinery maker reports earnings per share of $8.17 from sales of $20.5 billion.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

“You’re able to know exactly how it was grown, how it was packaged, what hands were touching it, what machinery was touching it, and how it got to the market.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

The same biological machinery that helps tumors grow rapidly may therefore make their DNA increasingly unstable, potentially enabling cancers to change, adapt, and become more aggressive.

From Science Daily Aug. 2, 2026

Dad was trying to get all the machinery in working order before harvest.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

For the first time, the researchers could see how different combinations of modifications are "read" and translated by the protein machineries in our cells.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2024

Export growth of machineries and hi-tech products were strong.

From The Guardian Sep. 7, 2021

Something is broken in our system if the machineries of war endure all strategies and policy changes, if only for the sake of enduring.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2018

It should also cause us to ask hard questions about our “technologies” of research ethics—the machineries of evaluation that experiments must pass through.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2018

It is all clangings and bangings as tiles are spat out by big machineries onto what is called a conveyor belt.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads




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