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Examples of machine tool in a Sentence
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Valentin Chavez, Southern High School: Valentin is a senior machine tool student at Southern High School who takes great pride in his work.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2024
China is Russia’s top supplier of machine tools, microelectronics, and nitrocellulose – a highly flammable compound used to make munitions – and Mr. Blinken noted that the U.S. has already sanctioned more than 100 Chinese enterprises.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
Compared with the first half of 2021, Russian customers last year paid 78 percent more for Chinese products such as machine tools while other customers paid 12 percent higher prices, the Bank of Finland said.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
Above all, this means reducing the flow to Russia of Western components, technology, and machine tools that are critical to keeping its economy on a war-footing.
—TIME, 21 Feb. 2024
In 1981, LeBlond was purchased by Japanese machine tool maker Makino Milling Machine Co., which shut down the Norwood plant in 1989.
—Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
The professor of International History at Tufts University told Fortune that the Biden administration has indeed scored a coup, as, aside from the U.S. and China, Japan and the Netherlands are the two most important countries for machine tools used to create chips.
—Rachel Shin, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2023
It was made by a seller who uses a machine tool at an old General Electric factory in Indiana and cuts wood to turn it into furniture.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
But its main dependencies will be components and also machine tools.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near machine tool
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“Machine tool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine%20tool. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
machine tool
noun
: a machine (as a lathe or drill) that is driven by power and is designed for shaping solid work
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