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machination

ma kuh nay shuhn

  • n  a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

  • The newcomer was giving the sitting parliamentarian a run for his money till the party bosses did some backend machinations.
  • That administrative machination was not disclosed until a week after the order was signed.
  • An assumption I've made is that the smoke monster is a machination of Fred's, and is in direct opposition to Jacob.
News & Articles

  • How to install SteamOS in VirtualBox
    Late on Friday, December 13, Valve released the first public version of SteamOS. As you would expect, SteamOS is currently very rough around the edges -- it is essentially just a version of Debian 7.1 (Wheezy) that has Steam pre-installed. If you're interested in Valve's latest machination, though, and toying with what might be the future of gaming, it's well worth installing SteamOS in ...
    Dec. 16, 2013 - ExtremeTech
Quotes

  • Dominique de Villepin in AFP
    I am anxious to restate this morning that at no point did I ask for an investigation into political figures, and at no moment did I partake in any political machination,Villepin said after being questioned.
  • Noah Wyle in Scripps News
    Creatively, "this is certainly where I want the character to be," Wyle says. "When, hopefully, we make more of these, we can slow the character's machination down a bit. He's a professionally competent but personally incompetent character."
  • Rajnath Singh in The Statesman
    Mr Singh said : "I wish I knew the truth. But what the Left and the SP say about the BJP is all part of a machination. They want to divide the country. Both of them are devoid of principle. Their only aim is to grab power. Is that a big principle ?"

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