How to Use machine tool in a Sentence
machine tool
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Japan’s machine tool orders fell 35.1% in the September quarter, the fourth straight decline and the largest in over a decade.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
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When Loren Voss of Fond du Lac was making a living as a machine tool serviceman, his work took him all over the world.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2018
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Diplomats and their underlings have brokered deals for weapons and drugs, and more mundane products like machine tools and cows.
—David Segal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
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By 1906, hundreds of machine tool shops around the nation made automobiles and needed rubber hoses and tires.
—Ted Evanoff, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
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That made Swiss products from watches to machine tools and ski vacations a lot more expensive in other countries.
—Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
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The Air Force realized the value of this bold action and matched company funds for machine tools and other essential equipment.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
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High school students will learn to build a fully functional rocket launch controller using CNC machine tools, and launch a rocket to high altitude during the camp.
—Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
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But its main dependencies will be components and also machine tools.
—Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2022
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It was made by a seller who uses a machine tool at an old General Electric factory in Indiana and cuts wood to turn it into furniture.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
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Japan on Friday expanded controls over exports to South Korea of items ranging from ball bearings to precision machine tools.
—New York Times, 4 Aug. 2019
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At a vocational school of Montmagny, 50 miles northeast of Quebec City, students learn to program machine tools or to master welding.
—Frederic Tomesco, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2017
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Barnes builds filters for machine tools used to manufacture engines and transmissions.
—Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
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Haegeumgang also sold machine tools, and an ad in 2014 for those products on a Chinese website listed the company headquarters at the same address as the North Korean embassy in Beijing.
—David Segal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
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Overall, Asian countries accounted for more than 50% of global machine tool production.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
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Also on deck: the final reading of the annual change in Japanese machine tool orders for August, and the nation's small business confidence index, forecast to tick up half a point to 49.5 for September.
—Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 26 Sep. 2017
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Above all, this means reducing the flow to Russia of Western components, technology, and machine tools that are critical to keeping its economy on a war-footing.
—TIME, 21 Feb. 2024
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The biggest consumer is the auto industry, with about 25 percent of supply predominately used in cutting and machining tools.
—Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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Yet inside an aging production hall, new digital machine tools that resemble science-fiction space pods are churning out components for Abrams tanks, a weapon pledged for fighting in Ukraine.
—Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
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The retail operation provides industrial customers direct access to purchase, rent and service tools like cylinders and jacks, pumps and bolting and machine tools.
—From News Reports, Houston Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2019
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To make his lids, Mr. Fleming had to import special machine tools (previously used in making raspberry containers) from Canada.
—A.j. Jacobs, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
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And lobbyists from a wide array of industries — from makers of autos, beer, pet food, and machine tools to farmers of wheat, soybeans and pork — are blanketing Capitol Hill to press the point to sympathetic Republican lawmakers.
—Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
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Hang Time has placed men in jobs including janitorial services, car washes, solar installation, roofing, machine tool and die, driving trucks and more.
—Alix Boyle, courant.com, 12 Dec. 2019
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Companies will have the opportunity to raise concerns and to note if goods crucial to business—highly specialized machine tools, for example—have been targeted, or if different goods should be included in the tariff list.
—Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
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Dead trees were imported on trucks, ground smooth with machine tools to prevent children from getting splinters, individually numbered, and then lowered into the stream, creating artisanal eddies.
—Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
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The targeted products include medicines and medical equipment, machine tools and chemicals, and televisions, dishwashers and automobile parts.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
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Reagan slapped import quotas on cars, motorcycles, forklifts, memory chips, color TVs, machine tools, textiles, steel, Canadian lumber and mushrooms.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
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Among the positions open, according to the depot, are several chemical, mechanical and civil engineering jobs, as well as machine tool operator, welder, sandblaster, painter and other positions.
—William Thornton, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, humans developed the steam engine, created the textile industry, invented machine tools and factories, and built telecommunication, transportation and power infrastructure.
—Seni Sulyman, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
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The Exechon XMini is the next-generation intelligent portable machine system, combining the flexibility and high dynamics of the articulated arm robot with the stiffness and accuracy of the rigid machine tool.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2023
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Japanese manufacturers are major suppliers to Chinese companies, sending them everything from precision machine tools to components for smartphones and cars.
—Ben Dooley, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
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