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machine-drivenadjectiveOperated or controlled by a machine or machinery: machine-driven vehicles replaced much of the manual labour of the past...- Only 4 percent of the population is employed in agriculture, which has become highly industrialized and machine-driven.
- The image of an aviator who circles and teases Mt Etna, mythical home of Vulcan, shows just how bold the call to anarchy and a new machine-driven age was in 1912 when men began to fly.
- Tolkien saw in the impersonal, machine-driven capitalism of the twentieth century a form of soft tyranny almost as oppressive as fascism or communism.
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