"di ex machina" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} di ex machina
  1. plural of deus ex machina Tags: form-of, plural Form of: deus ex machina
    Sense id: en-di_ex_machina-en-noun-ZIGbia1Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English plurals in -i with singular in -us, -os or -o

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          "ref": "1913: E.H. Pearce, M.A., Sion College and Library, page 102 (Cambridge University Press) · (also reprinted in 2008)",
          "text": "Then appeared three di ex machina in the persons of John Denne, D.D., vicar of St Leonard, Shoreditch, rector of Lambeth, and Archdeacon and Canon of Rochester; Robert Drew, rector of St Margaret Pattens, and Prebendary of St Paul’s; and Reuben Clarke, D.D., rector of St Magnus the Martyr, Archdeacon of Essex, and chaplain in ordinary to George II."
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          "text": "It was in these circumstances that the Romans appeared, practically as di ex machina, with a fleet of two hundred ships, in contrast to the Achaeans’ ten, […]"
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          "ref": "2003, May 31ˢᵗ: Jared Lobdell (editor), The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930–1935, page 2 (McFarland & Co.; →ISBN, 9780786414543)",
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