as in architect
a person who designs and guides a plan or undertaking
the engineer of a movement to eradicate hunger
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as in to negotiate
to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
the mayor engineered an agreement to have a major league team play in our city
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Recent Examples of engineer
Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Gone too is the requirement to have an engineer designated to each of a reactor's critical safety systems.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
Josh Dubow, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Born Archie Leach in Bristol, England, Cary Grant engineered one of Hollywood’s most durable transformations.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 28 Jan. 2026
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Noun
What predecessors in the autonomous vehicle industry achieved with thousands of engineers and billions of dollars spent on research, development and safety testing, Waabi can do for a fraction, Khosla said.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Gone too is the requirement to have an engineer designated to each of a reactor's critical safety systems.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
Those decisions have been validated now that Mike Macdonald and Mike Vrabel have engineered quick turnarounds to get the two franchises back to the Super Bowl, with Macdonald doing it in his second season in Seattle and Vrabel in his first in New England.
—Josh Dubow, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Born Archie Leach in Bristol, England, Cary Grant engineered one of Hollywood’s most durable transformations.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineer
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Set inside a 17th-century former noble residence, the building has been a hotel since 1811—a grand, if slightly dusty, fixture of the Roman hospitality circuit—before having the cobwebs blown off courtesy of a four-year renovation overseen by the French-Mexican architect and designer Hugo Toro.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2026
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Adam Smith’s invisible hand coordinated the investors, architects, builders, and workers spending years getting the property in great shape for me and all of my neighbors.—
Edward Peter Stringham,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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Such cover is often used in sectors such as agriculture – with pay-outs for farmers when a flood of a set magnitude occurs, for example – and provides policyholders with a speedy settlement, rather than requiring them to negotiate with loss adjusters.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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During his insulated schooling and military training, nobody told Joseph that South Africa’s white civilian leaders had changed their view of Mandela and were beginning to negotiate with him.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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Over the past year, security researchers have been warning that hackers are increasingly targeting the technology behind global shipping, quietly manipulating systems that move goods worth millions of dollars.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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The messages—widely condemned as vulgar, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic—also revealed discussions about manipulating media coverage, targeting political opponents, and casual references to the misuse of public funds.—
Israel Melendez Ayala,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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The company has also arranged software escrow agreements in the US and Germany.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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Her shining brown curls are carefully arranged each morning, tied up with pink ribbon, festooned with flowers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineer. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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