machineries

noun

plural of machinery
as in instrumentalities
something used to achieve an end sincerely believes that the machinery of government can be used to better people's lives

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machineries
  1. vehicles
  2. instruments
  3. agents
  4. means
  5. mechanisms
  6. organs
  7. tools
Noun
  • Local trunk-or-treaters of all ages can collect their first pieces of candy and check out custom classics, hot rods, lowriders and other vehicles from around the area.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • More than 2,000 federal officers were sent to the city, and scenes of masked agents spilling from convoys of unmarked vehicles became commonplace.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of vehicles
Noun
  • The synth melody is poignant through the buds, but the upper vocal harmony and some of the upper-register atmospheric instruments are slightly buried.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The biotech firm offers its lab instruments to help scientists research cancer, immunology and neuroscience.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of instruments
Noun
  • In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.
    — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • Analysts attributed elevated gas prices to ongoing fighting in the Middle East, which has damaged oil infrastructure and forced firms to take up costly means of transporting crude.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Only Washington, North Carolina and Oregon tracked rejection rates with enough detail to distinguish ballots received in the mail from those received by some other means, like a ballot drop box.
    — Ken B. Morales, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of means
Noun
  • All Googlebooks have a metal chassis, and while most include hinge mechanisms beneath their touchpads, the Lenovo Googlebook has haptic motors beneath the touchpads to simulate the clicking sensation.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Peptides tinker with the body’s fundamental mechanisms for growth, healing, and inflammation, which can lead to a cancerous overgrowth of tissue and trigger immune problems in some people.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of mechanisms
Noun
  • Existing approaches have typically relied on relatively bulky energy-harvesting devices sutured onto organs, which have struggled to generate practically useful amounts of power.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The tubular organs roll back far enough to gaze upwards through transparent tissue in its head to hunt for prey.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of organs
Noun
  • In 2005, Chris and Robin Sorensen created the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation, with a mission of providing first-responders with life-saving equipment, tools and education.
    — Sadie Chafe, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Mia Lerner, a 17-year-old high school senior in California and a youth body image activist, knows the toll these digital tools can take.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of tools
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“Machineries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machineries. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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