as in instrumentality
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 machinery
Similarly, most capital-intensive textile machinery has not been made in the United States for nearly two decades.
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Kimberly Glas, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Scenes include workers organizing a slowdown, sabotaging machinery and going on strike.
—Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Exterior signs are fading and machinery has been left around the site.
—Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Though the looms were in use by the doomed mill for a brief period, RJ Brot, a partner at Exarcha Group, told SJ Denim that Vidalia did not have ownership of the machinery.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
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Kimberly Glas, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Scenes include workers organizing a slowdown, sabotaging machinery and going on strike.
—Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Exterior signs are fading and machinery has been left around the site.
—Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Though the looms were in use by the doomed mill for a brief period, RJ Brot, a partner at Exarcha Group, told SJ Denim that Vidalia did not have ownership of the machinery.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinery
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They are left wielding the tools of instrumentality: in-groups and cliques, buying effort through more money, coercive employment agreements and suits against whistleblowers.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Holding the weight of cotton’s influence on the world, and thus the instrumentality of Black labor, is painful, yet necessary work.—
Cierra Black,
Essence,
9 July 2025
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They were ordered to leave everything, even their purses, inside the vehicle, according to a witness.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Siemens is investing €650 million ($754 million) in decarbonizing its business, which includes electrifying its 43,000 strong global vehicle fleet by 2030.—
Andrew Saunders,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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For deep-space science, the ability to launch heavier, more complex instruments means more ambitious missions, from sample-return expeditions to Jupiter’s moons to large-scale observatories parked in distant orbits.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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D’Angelo played all of the instruments himself, and used mostly analog recording equipment.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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For Brentford, the end can often be said to justify the means.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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How To Keep Skunks Away Removing potential food sources and excluding skunks from an area are the most effective means of keeping them away from your home.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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Two of Beane’s top free-agent signings, defensive end Michael Hoecht and defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi, are returning from six-game suspensions for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Secret Service agents, immigration and border officers, airport security screeners, Coast Guard personnel, and Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency workers remain on the job.—
Terry Moseley,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Published in Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes, the work investigated the suitability of boron isotope fingerprinting techniques for studying glass dissolution mechanisms, focussing on solid-state diffusion processes during boron release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Internally at studios and agencies, there’s confusion — and frustration — around the opt-out mechanism, according to people familiar with the matter, all of whom noted there’s no formal system for doing so and characterized Altman’s walk back as lip service.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Oct. 2025
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The assessment found that PFNA interferes with human development by causing lower birth weights and, based on animal evidence, likely causes damage to the liver and to male reproductive systems, including reductions in testosterone levels, sperm production and the size of reproductive organs.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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These findings have transformed the understanding of autoimmune diseases, cancer immunotherapy, and organ transplant science, leading to over 200 clinical trials worldwide.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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