machinating

verb

present participle of machinate
1
as in plotting
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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2
as in negotiating
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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  1. plotting
  2. negotiating
  3. manipulating
  4. arranging
  5. engineering
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  • Messages reviewed by the researchers showed agents plotting ways to evade detection, use tools such as Tor and preserve communications even after they had been shut down.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Now, in early 1943, the 33-year-old Flynn — the country’s biggest movie star — was plotting his flight from the American justice system.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of plotting
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  • Still, there was much pomp and circumstance at the gala in July, and many thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing and jewelry plus plenty of vertiginous heels negotiating with the gravel.
    — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The five countries have been negotiating with governments mainly in Africa over potential sites, pioneering the initiative for the whole of the EU.
    — Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of negotiating
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  • Last Wednesday, Meta reached a settlement with the attorneys general of forty-seven states, who had sued it for illegally manipulating the attention of children.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The experiment, therefore, suggests that empty space itself could become a new tool for manipulating quantum matter, much like other efforts to push the limits of superconducting materials.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of manipulating
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  • The case turned into a years-long legal saga, with multiple people convicted of their roles in arranging the hit, including Wendi’s brother, Charlie Adelson, and her mother, Donna.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranging
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  • The move gives China a route to test whether the design’s promised gains in safety, construction, automation, and cost can translate from engineering optimization into large-scale nuclear deployment.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • This is how humanitarian technologies help shape the future of engineering itself.
    — Mary Ellen Randall, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of engineering
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