"dii ex machinis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1839, John Richard Darley, A Treatise on Homer: With Miscellaneous Questions, Samuel J. Machen, page 72:",
          "text": "[…] hence, the gods in the Iliad are never “ Dii ex machinis,” they are providential and governing, they prepare the conflict, mature the crisis, […]",
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          "ref": "1882: The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume № 73, page 329 (Fannin & Co.)",
          "text": "[…] assume nervous influences of which the student has no knowledge, and which he must provisionally regard as dii ex machinis, to be looked-up afterwards."
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          "ref": "2005: Christoph Clausen, Macbeth Multiplied: Negotiating Historical and Medial Difference Between Shakespeare and Verdi, page 161 (Rodopi; ISBN 90‒420‒1887‒9, 978‒90‒420‒1887‒7)",
          "text": "In John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ludicrously contrived last-minute rescue of Maceath works as a deliberate deflation of opera’s various dii ex machinis."
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          "word": "deus ex machina"
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        "plural of deus ex machina"
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          "text": "In John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ludicrously contrived last-minute rescue of Maceath works as a deliberate deflation of opera’s various dii ex machinis."
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