machinery
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Private business investment rose by 6.0% in the first quarter, driven by a 16% rise in machinery and equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
These includes fortifying homes against wildfires, replanting fire-ravaged forests and thinning out vegetation with prescribed burns, goat grazing and manual thinning with heavy machinery to reduce the intensity of potential fires.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
"This study confirms that during aging, the central machinery that makes proteins starts to have quality problems."
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
One observation from the US was that AI-based robots cope much better with variance than previous machinery.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing machinery
Engineering - Introductory
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Mechanical Engineering
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Engineering - Middle School
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