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Recent Examples of machinate But Cleopatra, still machinating away in Alexandria, couldn’t handle the thought of Herod gaining any further traction in Antony’s affections. Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019 Now a new scheme described by ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal involves families seemingly machinating to get an unfair leg up in paying for a coveted seat at a university. Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinate
Verb
  • Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro – who was this week convicted of plotting to overturn his country’s 2022 election and sentenced to more than 27 years in jail – is far from being the first Latin American leader to run into legal trouble.
    Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Another restructure is being plotted, with a meeting scheduled next week to discuss plans.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Its Office for Civil Rights investigates allegations at schools and negotiates corrective actions.
    Fred Clasen-Kelly, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Looking forward, 185 countries are negotiating a global plastics treaty aimed at ending plastic pollution by 2040, and to promote a closed loop approach, phasing out unnecessary plastics and encouraging the use of sustainable alternatives.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Head coach Kevin O’Connell tends to scheme free releases for Jefferson, but Terrell can be sticky down the field.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is only Year 1, and while the Patriots are working, scheming and practicing to win every Sunday, their biggest games are well ahead of them.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In this approach, quantum information is encoded in various properties of photons, and computation is performed by manipulating these photonic states using optical components.
    Gil Press, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025.
    Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That insight has guided the team at Typhur, headquartered in San Jose at the heart of Silicon Valley, a location that inspires them to engineer precision with intuitive design.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The reality is, most commercial language models are generally engineered to always please users, producing answers sometimes at the expense of truth.
    Scott Zoldi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His perpetual ease — spontaneous and never contrived — has always held a deep fascination for me and for my creativity.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Sure, much of the drama and plot feels contrived, but that’s true for many reality-show first seasons.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Machinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinate. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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