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
Handling brittle ceramics or moisture-sensitive sulfides requires completely new machinery and processes that don’t exist at an industrial scale yet.
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Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Startups like Arena want to enable further innovation in this kind of machinery.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Both the governor and the secretary listed a combination of lower market prices for farm products plus rising fertilizer, machinery and labor costs as a severe squeeze on the farm economy.
—Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Avoid using heavy machinery like lawnmowers in dry areas.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Startups like Arena want to enable further innovation in this kind of machinery.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Both the governor and the secretary listed a combination of lower market prices for farm products plus rising fertilizer, machinery and labor costs as a severe squeeze on the farm economy.
—Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Avoid using heavy machinery like lawnmowers in dry areas.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinery
Noun
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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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Ivanhoe Mines—controlled by billionaire Robert Friedland—has agreed to sell C$690 million ($500 million) of its shares to Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) as the company seeks to expands its copper output amid rising demand for the metals needed for electric vehicles and data centers.—
Yessar Rosendar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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All-solid-state batteries promise safer, more powerful energy storage for electric vehicles, electronics, and the grid.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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More than 100 Jilin remote sensing satellites have been launched, designed to acquire information from space via remote instruments.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Merin wrote in the complaint that Gurich grabbed a writing instrument attached to an electronic signature machine, pulling the writing instrument out of Thimmhardy’s right hand and yanking the electronic signature machine off the desk.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The future of this rapidly expanding means of devising software by tapping into the generative capabilities of modern-era AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, Gemini, and other large language models, will be discussed.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Such compounds can form by other means, such as, for example, the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.—
Dirk Schulze-Makuch,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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In a video taken by a security camera at his mother's driveway, obtained by ABC News, a federal agent can be heard asking Gamez Lira to turn off the engine and to not resist.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Blackhawks and Kaiser’s agent had been negotiating for some time this offseason, but neither side had been in a rush, with the 23-year-old Kaiser having no arbitration rights.—
Scott Powers,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are currently no global carbon pricing mechanisms.—
Michaila Byrne,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The underlying mechanisms involve immense pattern-matching based on vast arrays of human writing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Despite having blood parasites and heart-worm disease, Sena was otherwise healthy, though her organs immediately gave her old age away.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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Depending on how severe the injury is, the organ can sometimes repair itself.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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