workings
IPA: wˈɝkɪŋz
noun
- The internal mechanism of some device or system.
- The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
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Examples of "workings" in Sentences
- Pope of Babylon, and all her inward and her outward workings, which is Pagin.
- An understanding of the ribosome's innermost workings is important for a scientific understanding of life.
- The conveyor belt model is an important component of our understanding of the long-term workings of the climate.
- All this is made endlessly complex by the ability of the mind to interfere with, or to shape, its own workings, which is pathology at worst and our precious autonomy at best.
- New drugs or new therapies, or old drugs and old therapies, or crystals or visualization, or simply our ignorance of the long-term workings of the virus gave us the right to this hope.
- For six months I have read with close attention your story of "Frenzied Finance," in _Everybody's Magazine_, and have paid close attention to the manner in which, by pandering to the worst prejudices of the American people, you have endeavored by misstatement of facts to distort the conditions actually existing through what you call the workings of the "System."
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