“And one is that they're complete idiots — or she is the most Machiavellian, manipulative 14-year-old you've ever heard of.

Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoorhouse/murf-the-surf-12th-victim-true-crime-women

In almost every instance, the U.S. government (often spearheaded by the FBI) has in its typical Machiavellian fashion sown the seeds of terror domestically and internationally in order to expand its own totalitarian powers.

Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/06/fbi-make-work-entrapment-schemes-creating-criminals-in-order-to-arrest-them/

It also featured isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments, incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers and Machiavellian power politics, resulting in a world of total chaos.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/theatre/the-play-metamorphosis-reimagined-the-space-beyond-the-proscenium/article67569374.ece

Urquhart was every bit a Machiavellian monster as Frank Underwood, if not more brutal.

Source: https://screenrant.com/best-bbc-drama-shows/