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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
machinate .
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Examples
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Back because this time Erik hopes to protect the staff and students from self-styled CEO—See Everything Officer—Jonathan Wyle, who demands higher test scores on a lower budget and machinates to expel Erik's student Jethro, volcanic with anger over a murdered friend.
Butterfly, Butterflown Mark Meier 2011
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He and his intended audience are the linguistically elite as his review is sprinkled with words like: nascent, machinates, trope, eponymous, misanthropy and detritus.
Archive 2006-06-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006
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He and his intended audience are the linguistically elite as his review is sprinkled with words like: nascent, machinates, trope, eponymous, misanthropy and detritus.
Zed's new review: someone needs a hug Elizabeth McClung 2006
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One machinates in the face of many green shutters, which are not necessarily dead because they are shut.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Valorbe follows, and, to get hold of Delphine, machinates one of the most absurd scenes in the whole realm of fiction.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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One who machinates is a machinator, not a machinist.
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The problem is when the Church instigates and meddles and machinates to make their opinion into pubic policy.
MetaFilter VikingSword 2009
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