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machinery

[muh-shee-nuh-ree] / məˈʃi nə ri /


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Those include a protected bay with deep channels, an entrance wide enough for ships, land for laying out the giant blades and steel towers, and access to heavy machinery to piece them together.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Using cryo-electron microscopy, the team was able to observe how DHX29 physically interacts with the 80S ribosome, the cellular machinery responsible for protein production.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

Once among the poorest and most isolated countries in Asia, Vietnam has transformed itself into a thriving export economy, supplying consumer electronics, machinery and clothing to Western nations.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Writer Ernest Seeman accurately portrayed the Durham of his youth when he described this neighborhood of “large houses and well-groomed lawns, where several of its richest and most righteous rajputs and masters of machinery lived.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson