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adjective

as in manipulated

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verb

past tense of engineer
as in negotiated
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 engineered
Adjective
Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role. — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
Traditional supply chains were engineered for efficiency in stable, predictable conditions. — Rich Garrity, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Nothing about it feels engineered, but everything is so specific. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2026 Though designed for crops engineered to tolerate it, dicamba is widely considered a volatile herbicide because of its tendency to drift. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026 Aetrex orthotics are made from high grade polyurethane, engineered to fill in all the spaces between your foot and the ground to give you comfort and relieve foot and back pain. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026 Every detail is engineered to keep your pulse low and your tranquility high. — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026 The crawl space had to do certain things, and the actor had to move in a certain way, so it was engineered pretty carefully. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026 Most of the region’s sewers were engineered generations ago to drain well under 2 inches of rain per hour, and a cloudburst can deliver double that amount. — Ravi S. Bhalla, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026 The album was engineered and mixed by John Hanlon at Shangri-La, with analog mixes completed at the Village and mastering handled by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
  1. manipulated
  2. negotiated
  3. designer
  4. arranged
  5. manufactured
  6. plotted
  7. adulterated
  8. concocted
Adjective
  • What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of manipulated
Verb
  • This will happen on six occasions from October through to December, but only if the tie against Tromso is safely negotiated to set up three home matches and three away in the league phase.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Greenwich plans to release the film in theaters early next year after the company’s Andy Bohn negotiated the deal with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of negotiated
Adjective
  • Because cap-toe flats were popularized by Chanel, the detail immediately makes even non-designer shoes look more expensive.
    — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 5 Aug. 2026
  • One of them, Hip Optical, which touts designer eyewear at non-designer prices, opened earlier this year across from the Apple Store and near True Food Kitchen and BJ’s Brewhouse.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
Definition of designer
Verb
  • The two prescriptions would be arranged in concentric rings, alternating outward as though from a bull’s-eye.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
  • But, like the modern concept of condominium ownership, the investors purchased shares of the theater (corresponding to the 44 private boxes arranged on three levels).
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of arranged
Adjective
  • The twister shoved a porch several feet from its manufactured home, according to the report.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2026
  • Its role is to expose wrongdoing, illuminate facts, and draw the world’s attention to crimes committed in the name of false causes and manufactured justifications.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
Definition of manufactured
Verb
  • Setting the form equal to a number fixes it into an equation that can be plotted on an x-y graph—something many of us learned to do on graphing calculators in high school.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Aurelius uses similar techniques across the record, which lends to a certain sameyness by the end, though the tracks’ varied tempos, each one plotted at a different point on the downtempo spectrum, help offset any stagnation.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of plotted
Adjective
  • Navarro, who pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in August, was sentenced Friday in Manhattan by federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil for being part of a conspiracy to distribute and administer adulterated and misbranded drugs for racehorses.
    — Stephen Edelson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2021
Definition of adulterated
Adjective
  • The middle stretch has a concocted outdoor chase sequence that feels like a clumsy campground slasher.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, Americans should be deeply concerned by the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative.
    — Jasmine Baehr , Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of concocted

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