Discovery and Machine

Discovery

Discovery noun - The act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time.

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Machine and discovery are semantically related. in treasure topic. In some cases you can use "Machine" instead a noun "Discovery".

Machine noun - A device that changes energy into mechanical motion.

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Discovery and machine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discovery" instead a noun "Machine".

human	human discovery	human machine
similar	similar discovery	similar machine
original	original discovery	original machine
actual	actual discovery	actual machine
Other adjectives: big, huge, personal, new, mysterious, greatest.

In Paycheck the government's discovery of a future-seeing device causes it to bring about the disasters the machine prophecies.

Source: Creator / Philip K. Dick
Frank later refers to the trope by name upon the discovery that not only is the Monitor, the machine Frank built, predicting the end of the world, is also actually the thing that is making it happen.

Source: Film / Tomorrowland
The discovery of this glitch in 2015, twenty years after the machine's debut, got it banned from all high-level tournaments due to its exploitability once activated.

Source: Good Bad Bugs

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