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machinery

noun

mə-ˈshē-nə-rē

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 Construction prices could rise, too; one-quarter of the lumber used in the U.S. comes from Canada, and both Canada and Mexico supply cement, metals, machinery and other homebuilding necessities. —

Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024 The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become. —

Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024 Tso suggested the assets could be used to establish a Navajo Department of Transportation yard in Black Mesa to provide machinery and grading services. —

Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024 Because manganese is important in machinery production, demand for manganese ore was considerably higher during both world wars. —

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But the instrumentality of so many of his characters seems to have reached a nadir in The City and Its Uncertain Walls.

Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
This dilemma can be solved in only one way, by the birth of a new faith, adjusted in its instrumentalities to the needs of the new century, but preserving the ultimate objectives of the old.

Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011