Popular and familiar love songs underscore every bumbling error or ill-conceived machination of the lovers' various courtships. |
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Due to some unforeseen plot machination, your character is washed up on the beach of a tropical desert island. |
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You had to admire the sheer pluck of the woman, the marvellously unMachiavellian lack of machination or anything you might call strategy. |
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In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality. |
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In the 17th century, the word could also mean a scheme or plot, a meaning now expressed by the derived machination. |
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