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machinations
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  • Fortunately, there were still some well-heeled people who were not taken in by the National Socialists with their contemptuous, barbaric machinations, Paul thought gloomily.†  (source)
  • The machinations of archangels are beyond me.†  (source)
  • Later, when the fatline call to pilgrimage came from Gladstone herself, I knew the role the Ousters had planned for me in these final days: the Ousters, or the Core, or Gladstone and her machinations.†  (source)
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  • If we go to them, you will be entangled in their politics and machinations.†  (source)
  • But what he had seen at Perros, what he had heard behind the dressing-room door, his conversation with Christine at the edge of the moor made him suspect some machination which, devilish though it might be, was none the less human.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Prendergast read widely and possessed a good grasp of the grip-car wrecks, murders, and City Hall machinations covered so fervently by the city's newspapers.†  (source)
  • This terrible item—this devil's accident or machination that was constantly putting it before him!†  (source)
  • That's when we'll appeal to his Far East expertise and the global consequences of Sheng's and the taipans' machinations.†  (source)
  • Jealousy, fury, offended pride, all the passions in short that dispute the heart of an outraged woman in love, urged her to make a revelation; but she reflected that she would be totally lost if she confessed having assisted in such a machination, and above all, that d'Artagnan would also be lost to her forever.†  (source)
  • Even the name of the wind was hidden from him by the clever machinations of his captors.†  (source)
  • The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventer missed; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible: Yet, haply, of thy race In future days, if malice should abound, Some one intent on mischief, or inspired With devilish machination, might devise Like instrument to plague the sons of men For sin, on war and mutual slaughter bent.†  (source)
  • It would be the first step, the first act, in a series of moves and machinations—most of them involving dumb, blind luck—that would give me what I was searching for.†  (source)
  • If you miscarry, Your business of the world hath so an end, And machination ceases.†  (source)
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