How to Use machination in a Sentence

machination

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  • In The Loop was a parody of the machinations that led to the Iraq War.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2018
  • But again, Loeb knows a thing or two about the machinations of space.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • The focus was on people, the machinations and ploys of city dwellers.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 7 May 2018
  • Still, these machinations did not earn him a place in the Sardi’s hall of fame.
    — Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2018
  • But for all of the Tigers’ machinations, that sub-.500 record has them a mere three games out of first place in the AL Central.
    — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 14 May 2018
  • It’s always been part of the mix to debate the machinations behind the Beards.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This places him at the center of the regime’s highest-risk machination.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • After a while this starts to feel like dithering, or the machinations of soap opera.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
  • The rights to the game were subject to byzantine contracts and agreements and machinations and bribery.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Yet the movie’s plot machinations and brooding tone are at times a little too clever.
    — Pat Padua, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But Blackstone’s machinations seem to have broken the spirit, rather than the letter, of the rules.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The slow machinations of the House and its levers of power often don’t translate to voters.
    — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The grandeur of the show in general is almost like a machination of Andrew's brain.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Mar. 2018
  • True enough, but even after all the machinations the Dodgers were able to put the lead in the hands of the best reliever in baseball, Kenley Jansen.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • As Villeneuve says, the film focuses more on the machinations of the Bene Gesserit.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Were you drawn to the way this show depicts the inner machination and office politics of the CIA?
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And if the brand-new mother doesn’t want to participate in the machination?
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But that may only mark the start of a new phase in the conflict, one defined more by the machinations of foreign powers.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The spycraft involves all the machinations to keep the winners secret.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The whole machination is pretty much based on a semblance of supply and demand.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Now, we are left with nothing, only the machinations of the academy.
    — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • The machinations are par for the course at Naftogaz, which transports billions of dollars of natural gas through and around Ukraine each year.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • When the action pivots to the machinations of the professors under Hank, the pilot loses its head of steam.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The legal machinations haven’t led to big victories in court so far, and in fact Thomas More’s efforts have sometimes drawn ridicule from the bench.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Once the engine reaches 3000 rpm or so, the four-banger's machinations are less than melodious.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the roster and playing rotation machinations, Dallas jumped ahead by as many as 15 points in the first half, led for much of the second half and took the game to the wire.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • There’s also a bunch of plotting and dark machinations going on.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 20 July 2019
  • The machinations that take place after the challenge are hours condensed into a few minutes.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Eric—separated from his wife and in the throes of a midlife crisis—wins a promotion and gets caught up in toxic C-suite machinations.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024

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