Some of the mill's machinery was damaged in the fire.
a piece of farm machinery
Something was clogging the machinery.
The United Nations has set up machinery for mediation.
Recent Examples on the WebThe white trailer blends into the winter landscape at SKB Environmental’s landfill, but inside, machinery is working to capture one of the most pervasive environmental pollutants of our time.—Chloe Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024 Nvidia’s wealth comes from designing the most vital part of AI machinery: computer chips.—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2024 The most common causes of injuries include fires, falls, fatigue, machinery malfunctions, and lack of safety culture on rigs.—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024 His maiden speech in the House of Lords, in 1812, is still a clarion call: a rousing defense of the Luddites, who had smashed machinery that was taking over their jobs and were facing the death penalty.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 New chip factories are hugely complex, involving thousands of construction workers, long construction timelines and billions of dollars of machinery.—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024 What baffles many observers is not the predictable repression of Russia’s state machinery, which reliably put Mr. Navalny out of political action more or less permanently.—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2024 The machinery tore the child’s forearm, causing significant blood loss and severe lacerations, according to the complaint.—Melissa Alonso, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024 Around the time that Doudna’s team was unraveling the machinery of CRISPR, a bioengineer at Wake Forest University named Graça Almeida-Porada came to MacKenzie to vent.—Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
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