engine

Definition of enginenext
as in machine
a device that changes energy into mechanical motion a car with a 200-horsepower engine

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Recent Examples of engine The crash occurred Monday night, shortly after the single-engine Cessna 172 took off from Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026 The cause of the engine failure that preceded the crash is under investigation. Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 Small businesses are often described as the engine of the American economy. Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2026 The engine will reduce sustainment costs. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for engine
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  • The result is chaos, and a few too many jokes about young people not knowing how to work a fax machine or manage paper.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • By the 1910s, futurist and cubist art adopted the bicycle as a representation of the fusion of humanity and machines in the modern era.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Details about the electric motor remain limited.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The project recently received air turbine units, generators, electric motors, molten salt storage tanks, and other core equipment from Shanghai Electric.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026

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“Engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engine. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.

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