"mud machine" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "mud machines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2008, Kerwin C. Swint, Mudslingers, Union Square Press, p. 82.\nIn response, the Democrats cranked up their own mud machine."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Michele Sorice, Assessing Communication. Integrated Approaches in Political, Social and Business Context, LUISS University Press, p. 64.\nThis is not the only effect of such a system of (dis)information: as many authors underlined, the subversive power underlying the functioning of the mud machine seems to be even more devastating since it achieves its goal simply extending its menacing shadow over potential objectives."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A system or program (e.g. a campaign or newspaper) considered particularly busy at throwing mud at, that is defaming, a certain target, usually for political reasons."
      ],
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        [
          "mud",
          "mud"
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        [
          "defaming",
          "defame"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "defame"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mud machine"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mud machines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mud machine (plural mud machines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "defame"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2008, Kerwin C. Swint, Mudslingers, Union Square Press, p. 82.\nIn response, the Democrats cranked up their own mud machine."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Michele Sorice, Assessing Communication. Integrated Approaches in Political, Social and Business Context, LUISS University Press, p. 64.\nThis is not the only effect of such a system of (dis)information: as many authors underlined, the subversive power underlying the functioning of the mud machine seems to be even more devastating since it achieves its goal simply extending its menacing shadow over potential objectives."
        }
      ],
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        "A system or program (e.g. a campaign or newspaper) considered particularly busy at throwing mud at, that is defaming, a certain target, usually for political reasons."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mud",
          "mud"
        ],
        [
          "defaming",
          "defame"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mud machine"
}