Examples of machinery in a Sentence
Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
a piece of farm machinery
Something was clogging the machinery.
The United Nations has set up machinery for mediation.
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Project 2025 is the product of political machinery that has sprung up around Trump that seeks to tear out the roots of American democracy and then salt the ground.
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Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
The Dutch company, whose machinery makes chips, said demand for artificial intelligence technology is continuing to drive growth.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
The model then converts each token into a string of numbers called an embedding, fodder for the underlying mathematical machinery.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
The investigations will also cover the machinery used to make semiconductors, products that contain chips and pharmaceutical ingredients.
—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
The Dutch company, whose machinery makes chips, said demand for artificial intelligence technology is continuing to drive growth.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
The model then converts each token into a string of numbers called an embedding, fodder for the underlying mathematical machinery.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
The investigations will also cover the machinery used to make semiconductors, products that contain chips and pharmaceutical ingredients.
—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for machinery
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machinery. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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machinery
noun
ma·chin·ery
mə-ˈshēn-(ə-)rē 
plural machineries
1
: machines in general
2
: the working parts of a machine or instrument
3
: the organization or system by which something is done or carried on
machinery of government
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