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
Other innovations include waste heat recovery systems that transfer surplus heat from machinery to heat water for showers and pools.
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Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 29 Oct. 2025
The search for hostage bodies stepped up over the past few days after the arrival of heavy machinery from Egypt.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
This week, heavy machinery from Egypt entered Gaza to assist in the search for the bodies of the hostages.
—Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
What To Know Egyptian machinery, including bulldozers and excavators, tore through rubble and debris in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis as part of efforts to recover hostages.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
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Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 29 Oct. 2025
The search for hostage bodies stepped up over the past few days after the arrival of heavy machinery from Egypt.
—Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
This week, heavy machinery from Egypt entered Gaza to assist in the search for the bodies of the hostages.
—Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
What To Know Egyptian machinery, including bulldozers and excavators, tore through rubble and debris in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis as part of efforts to recover hostages.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 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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In addition to WeRide and Pony AI, Baidu is also expanding its robotaxi offerings through its Apollo Go vehicles.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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Leave plenty of distance between you and the vehicle in front of you to account for sudden stops or changes in the traffic pattern.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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But a team of Australian researchers created an AI algorithm that fixes the problem — a major relief for the scientific community, which hopes to use the instrument to search for exoplanets around stars in our Milky Way galaxy.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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In the year leading up to March 2024, 570 homicides took place in England and Wales, according to ONS, with 262 homicides committed using a knife or other sharp instrument.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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The problem is that the objective optimized by the algorithm is good for the people who control the means of prediction…but not good for the rest of society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Then Vice President Cheney condemned those behind the torture scandal, while at the same time defending water-boarding as a useful means of extracting vital intelligence (many intelligence experts say water-boarding is torture, and its victims will say anything to avoid further abuse).—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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The woman, Marimar Martinez, is accused of closely pursuing the agent and ramming into his car.—
Omar Jimenez,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The team settled for adding TE Josh Whyle and defensive lineman Arron Mosby from the practice squad to the active roster, but Green Bay is apparently in on one prominent free-agent defensive back as well.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The state has also advanced in large-scale restoration through innovative mechanisms such as restoration concessions, while intensifying actions to combat deforestation and forest fires.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The perpétuelle montre à tact showcases many of the key refinements and complications that Breguet perfected, including automatic winding, a calendar display, and an ingenious tact mechanism for telling the time silently or in darkness.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
5 Nov. 2025
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According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, CMT causes a range of sensory and motor symptoms, including numbness, tingling, pain, muscle weakness and atrophy — deterioration in cells, tissues, and organs.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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Endometriosis Endometriosis is a condition in which uterine-like tissue grows outside of the uterus on other nearby organs.—
Wendy Wisner,
Health,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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