machination

Rather than rushing into things, Hamlet becomes consumed with the awful machinations of thinking itself.

Remember, these machinations are all in the service of a problem that doesn't exist.

The eponymous hero comes fully alive as he navigates shadowy machinations and ethical quandaries.

The political machinations to succeed Lenin began immediately.

I've got the dedication, but I might need to vacation because all this machination really grinds my gears.

Amid the great-power machinations, East Germans were real people, not cartoon characters from a cold-war comic book.

But what has come to light since are the machinations of Trump's entourage, as it worked to keep quiet two of his alleged affairs.

The escapades of his Norfolk terriers, Whisky and Soda, are as keenly observed as the machinations of his critics.

In the West people on the right remember a whiter past, with fewer cultures, even as the hard left condemns the machinations of global business.

With the universe's eyes fixated on the spice wars of Arrakis, few have paid heed to the machinations on Zerakis.