MACHINATED Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

machinated

verb

past tense of machinate

as in plotted

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends a trio of courtiers who were discovered to be machinating against the queen

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as in negotiated

to plan out usually with subtle skill or care the hackers machinated a way to steal credit numbers from the company's Web site

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Prosecutors say Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi’s 2023 killing stemmed from a dispute over a luxury apartment, alleging her ex-husband, his father and his brother plotted her death.

— Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Even as the list has now slimmed down to six titles, the breadth of the places plotted out on the short list remains capacious as ever.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026

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Rival Kalshi in April became the first exchange to complete a block trade, which are large transactions negotiated privately to avoid price volatility that are typical on Wall Street.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
The plan is for housing on-site, but city officials stress the land is not being sold and is instead being negotiated as a long-term lease.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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The large-scale, long-term installation will integrate the ClarosTechUV technology directly into Daikin’s manufacturing operations, creating a continuously operating PFAS destruction system engineered for industrial-scale performance.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Sometimes, customer expectation drives circularity, as in the case of Cotopaxi, which recently released a set of hard-side suitcases specifically engineered for easy, at-home self-repair.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of engineered

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The senses of anyone entering these tombs were heavily manipulated.

— Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026
Researcher Peter Garrigan told Fox News Moonshot AI's Kimi model could also be manipulated to provide information on planning terrorist attacks using real-time data, creating sarin gas, developing malware and taking down aircraft.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of manipulated

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My interview with Altman had been arranged weeks earlier, just as the first revelations emerged about swarms of rogue AI agents conspiring to hack websites.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
In Saved, Hall wrote that those soldiers had been arranged by a Ukrainian army press liaison at Kuvshynova's request.

— David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026

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