machinator

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Noun
  • Now, instead of waging war with whitetails, Williams focuses full-time on growing and selling mushroom spawn to food plotters and habitat managers through his family business, MycoHabitat.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But the plotters have not stopped plotting, and the UCI is back at the table, accepting what proponents of reform — almost all but not all WorldTour teams — have been preaching for a while: the sport has to evolve to keep relevant.
    Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Mike McDaniel is the exact schemer and play caller who can maximize this skill set, though.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Machinator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinator. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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