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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
Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 May 2026
This episode was hosted by Sarah Gonzalez, produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, edited by Jess Jiang, fact checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Robert Rodrguez with help from Kwesi Lee.
—Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, 29 May 2026
Democrats counter-engineered them in the 2020s.
—Bruce Sibley, Time, 29 May 2026
The astronauts flew in a spacecraft designed and engineered at Lockheed Martin in Jefferson County.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
Great luxury jewels are designed to adorn with beauty and distinction, plus engineered and handmade to live and move on the body with ease.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
When Faye won Senegal’s 2024 presidential election, it was widely understood as a victory engineered by Sonko, his political mentor and founder of the Pastef movement, who had been barred from contesting the election himself after a defamation conviction.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 23 May 2026
This episode of Galaxy Brain was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
The chips are still engineered to be hyperpalatable.
—Cole Hanson, STAT, 22 May 2026
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
Tom Glenn, president of Petroleum Trends International and editor of the lubricants publication JobbersWorld, explained that modern motor oils are highly engineered with demanding performance and efficiency requirements.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 May 2026
This episode was hosted by Sarah Gonzalez, produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, edited by Jess Jiang, fact checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Robert Rodrguez with help from Kwesi Lee.
—Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, 29 May 2026
Democrats counter-engineered them in the 2020s.
—Bruce Sibley, Time, 29 May 2026
The astronauts flew in a spacecraft designed and engineered at Lockheed Martin in Jefferson County.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
Great luxury jewels are designed to adorn with beauty and distinction, plus engineered and handmade to live and move on the body with ease.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
When Faye won Senegal’s 2024 presidential election, it was widely understood as a victory engineered by Sonko, his political mentor and founder of the Pastef movement, who had been barred from contesting the election himself after a defamation conviction.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 23 May 2026
This episode of Galaxy Brain was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
The chips are still engineered to be hyperpalatable.
—Cole Hanson, STAT, 22 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
Adjective
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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
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Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The United States wanted an end to the Iranian ballistic-missile program, something that was not covered by the Iranian treaty that the Obama administration negotiated a decade ago.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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Working with the council’s leadership, Bass negotiated an expensive pay package with the city’s police union, hiking starting salaries while offering raises and retention bonuses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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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
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The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.—
Sha Hua,
WSJ,
21 June 2022
Verb
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Decisions also have to be made quickly, and the logistics for sending power from one company have to be arranged before the blackout begins.—
Sufan Jiang,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
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Over email, van der Sloot arranged to provide the Holloway family with information about Natalee in exchange for $250,000.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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Through this, researchers are mimicking natural structures, such as bird nests and bone minerals, to create ultra-strong manufactured materials.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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New South Wales, replacing Spain and the German states as Britain’s source of wool, was drawn more closely into the British imperial network as an outlet for migrants and a market for investment capital and manufactured products.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Consultants and clients use data about the climate, finance, social instability, wars, and so on to plan their assets, and using AI, Kurant plotted parameters and visualized these data points.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
24 May 2026
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Vogel has very carefully plotted United Touch’s 2026 campaign and Aachen marked just the third show of the year for the stallion.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.—
Dylan Tokar,
WSJ,
2 Feb. 2023
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And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.—
Nadia Kounang,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2022
Adjective
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So is the neighbor who was pressured by police to corroborate a concocted story.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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