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verb (used without object), verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing.
to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose: to machinate the overthrow of the government.
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Machinating
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
machinate
c.1600, from L. machinat-, pp. stem of machinari (see machination). Related: Machinating.
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