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machinery

[muh-shee-nuh-ree] / məˈʃi nə ri /


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When IP6 levels decline, that restraint is removed, allowing the degradation machinery to become more active.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Days after the BBC approached the county council and Ringway Jacobs about the Turner Road potholes, a team from Essex Highways arrived with heavy machinery and lorryloads of fresh asphalt.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Chinese exports surged by almost a fifth last month, official data showed Tuesday, as shipments of tech components and machinery helped the world's second-largest economy weather pressure from the Middle East war.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Moraff and Fan had no ties to Maine or to the Democratic Party’s election machinery, which made their mission all the more audacious: to recruit a working-class candidate to run for the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Plots too were like rusted machinery whose wheels would no longer turn.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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