Definition of "machinated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of machinate. (verb)

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• "So while the upper level machinations are being machinated, and assuming that Obama is indeed the shrewdest gambler since Kenny Rogers, then why not in the meantime give the majority of Americans who voted Obama into office on a swell of hope a show they can actually get behind?"
• "In 1814, with the armies that had fought Napoleon across the Continent at the gates of Paris, Talleyrand machinated to restore Bourbon rule."
• "He machinated for this purpose, and "[d] uring the 1952 presidential campaign .... made a series of speeches accusing the Truman administration of weakness in the face of Communist advances.""