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
The last big reason that manufacturing may pay a premium: Manufacturing workers handle a lot of expensive machinery.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 27 May 2025
The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Thus the machinery of control remains, ready to be reignited by the next administration eager for intervention.
—Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
For the chemicals industry—so deeply embedded in the machinery of global trade—2025 is a reckoning.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 27 May 2025
The work of running a port is a constant maintenance of channels, breakwaters, bridges, and the machinery of seagoing commerce.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Thus the machinery of control remains, ready to be reignited by the next administration eager for intervention.
—Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
For the chemicals industry—so deeply embedded in the machinery of global trade—2025 is a reckoning.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinery
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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In response, Musk has floated – and then retracted – the idea of decommissioning a SpaceX vehicle critical to NASA's spaceflight program.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Then the line of tactical vehicles and trucks backed out and left in the other direction.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
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The Time Has Come A stablecoin, a digital dollar, is an instrument whose time has come.—
Cleve Mesidor,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Each installment felt made by a director with a specific take on the material, and Cruise was their versatile instrument.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2025
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Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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The writer’s death on June 3 was confirmed by his husband, Michael Carroll, and agent Bill Clegg, The New York Times, The Guardian and NBC News report.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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These measures would fortify the collective power and deterrence of the United States’ alliances far beyond what is possible under today’s informal mechanisms.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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Aid is now beginning to be distributed under a contentious U.S.-Israeli mechanism.—
Philissa Cramer,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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The organs of civil society—Harvard, the Times, N.G.O.s—would also need to be destroyed.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Sconce also harvested organs and body parts for profit, pulled teeth to extract the gold from fillings, and was investigated for allegedly contracting a hit on a rival and poisoning another competitor who was trying to expose the crimes at the Lamb funeral home.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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