as in equipment
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
the hospital's operating rooms boast the very latest medical apparatus
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Since 2020, the nation’s electoral apparatus has upgraded its equipment, tightened its procedures, improved its audits, and hardened its defenses against subversion by bad actors, foreign or domestic.
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Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Washington’s foreign policy apparatus would resist such moves strenuously, given the enduring support for Israel in both parties, reinforced by pro-Israel groups on Capitol Hill.
—Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
Polls are classified as internal if they were conducted on behalf of a candidate, party, campaign committee or other official party apparatus.
—Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
The Election Integrity Network is run by Cleta Mitchell, a once-liberal Democratic Oklahoma legislator who has constructed a vast conservative apparatus promoting falsehoods about noncitizen voting.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Barton Gellman, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Washington’s foreign policy apparatus would resist such moves strenuously, given the enduring support for Israel in both parties, reinforced by pro-Israel groups on Capitol Hill.
—Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
Polls are classified as internal if they were conducted on behalf of a candidate, party, campaign committee or other official party apparatus.
—Mary Radcliffe, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
The Election Integrity Network is run by Cleta Mitchell, a once-liberal Democratic Oklahoma legislator who has constructed a vast conservative apparatus promoting falsehoods about noncitizen voting.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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