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
These include tariffs on Boeing aircraft, machinery, automobiles, bourbon, and more.
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 July 2025
The announcement, which follows similar warnings to other trading partners, could make everything from German machinery and French cheese to Italian luxury goods and Danish pharmaceuticals more expensive in the U.S.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 July 2025
The most valuable category was drugs and pharmaceuticals, followed by autos and aircraft and other heavy machinery.
—Steve Kopack, NBC news, 12 July 2025
Ford hoped the technology could help the automaker drive down the cost of machinery repairs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 12 July 2025
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 July 2025
The announcement, which follows similar warnings to other trading partners, could make everything from German machinery and French cheese to Italian luxury goods and Danish pharmaceuticals more expensive in the U.S.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 July 2025
The most valuable category was drugs and pharmaceuticals, followed by autos and aircraft and other heavy machinery.
—Steve Kopack, NBC news, 12 July 2025
Ford hoped the technology could help the automaker drive down the cost of machinery repairs.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 12 July 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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The school's parking lot and driveway are big enough and far enough from the road to allow for more vehicle storage on school property, Murphy said.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
26 July 2025
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Lefler said other services, such as those picking up a resident using a wheelchair or providing additional assistance to the resident, traditionally call the day before or morning before to confirm who the driver is and the type of vehicle.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
26 July 2025
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The instrument, which started its main work in 2021, kicked toward that goalpost by peering at various galaxies across the universe.—
Sarah Scoles,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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Even the original one-month extension would have been too little time to arrange for, and fine-tune, other instruments to match the previous data for scientific continuity, Cortinas said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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The agent had a pressing question: How could his coaching clients include international athletes in the evolving NIL landscape?—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The listing agents are anxious to share more history and information about the Charles Cheney home.—
Karen A. Avitabile,
Hartford Courant,
3 Aug. 2025
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In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Replace people with mechanisms to drive labor costs down and profits up.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Rather than something that happens to one organ at a time, the findings suggest that aging should be regarded as a whole-body process.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Cue the organ, warm the confetti cannon and watch a dozen communities cram a lifetime of softball joy into eight delirious days.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Machinery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinery. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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