machinating

present participle of machinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinating
Verb
  • The Kremlin rejected the allegation, stressing that Putin was not plotting against Washington.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The case became even more horrifying when he was accused of plotting to silence a key witness.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On Tinder alone, men dominate the active user base, which gives women more choice and negotiating power.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Brown as the crafty Pauline is the true scene stealer, negotiating terms of terror herself.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Was Prater manipulating evidence?
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One was based on hard-coding logical rules for categorizing inputs into symbols and then for manipulating those symbols to arrive at outputs.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Around the country, arranging for housing is a relatively new and growing challenge for such PACE groups, which are funded through Medicaid and Medicare.
    Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Allen was simply magnificent, engineering one of the most memorable comebacks in recent history, and starting the Bills’ season at 1-0.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Its development began in Japan in the late 1980s, where a seed research company spent eight years engineering a vegetable that was milder in taste than broccoli, better suited to warmer climates and more versatile in the kitchen.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Machinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinating. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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