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
Wells Fargo expects pricing for the heavy-duty machinery to trend higher as big tech firms fight for a spot in line.
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Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The machinery to look inside these models, in other words, is being bolted together state by state, right now.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
But when fields are worked with heavy machinery, their soils leach carbon back into the air.
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Jasmin Sykes,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
The new machinery — wider, faster looms — allowed for mass production.
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Emma Bowman,
NPR,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for machinery
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The machinery to look inside these models, in other words, is being bolted together state by state, right now.
—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
But when fields are worked with heavy machinery, their soils leach carbon back into the air.
—
Jasmin Sykes,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
The new machinery — wider, faster looms — allowed for mass production.
—
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
19 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for machinery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinery
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Issued by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, a state instrumentality created under the Wyoming Stable Token Act (2023), FRNT is fully reserved and managed in partnership with Franklin Templeton.
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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.
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.
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One of the stops captured in police body camera video shows local officers talking about targeting work vans for ICE — vehicles associated with construction, landscaping and other industries reliant on immigrant labor.
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The company’s instruments are useful to astronomers and are often found in remote observatories like Starfront.
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Some countries have moved to ban or block certain markets entirely, and in the United States, the rapid growth of event contracts has sparked an ongoing fight between federal regulators and state authorities over whether these products are closer to financial instruments or unlicensed gambling.
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But that may also make Iranian oil less attractive to China, which has been buying it at a discount because Iran under sanctions has few other means to sell.
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None of these senior members of this genocidal regime are good guys, by any means.
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But the fear of being snatched by ICE agents remains, Neel said.
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In all 11 host cities, federal agents are leading operations to keep drones away from match-day crowds.
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Using a mechanism known as attention, transformers compare every token in a sequence to every other token in that sequence.
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The combination of heat and humidity can be dangerous for humans, because humidity impacts how sweat evaporates, and that’s a cooling mechanism.
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Each one is an oval organ, smooth and firm, roughly the size of a small egg.
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The synopsis says the seven-year ordeal included chronic pain, a life-saving organ amputation and multiple medical crises that left doctors unable to determine the cause of his condition.
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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