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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
Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Working closely with Perfect Game’s Tournament Operations team, BatWraps engineered its wraps to meet all bat-use requirements.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Its Alia aircraft are engineered for all-weather reliability and designed with quieter sound profiles compared to conventional aircraft.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
The company’s process is engineered to minimize energy waste and emissions, reducing the carbon footprint of industrial manufacturing.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
This one is made from a mix of solid and engineered wood for extra durability, and the slats and center legs keep your mattress in place.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
The hull, engineered by Umberto Tagliavini of Marine Design, draws on West Navaltech’s efficient, seaworthy forms but has been tailored for both performance and comfort.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Accessories include a messenger bag made from 100 percent Optim wool—Woolmark’s high-performance fabric engineered with fiber stretching technology to enhance wind and water resistance—plus a wool hat and scrunchie.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
While the package is stunning, the earbuds have also been engineered to offer crisp, immersive sound.
—New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
This on-the-edge-of-death thriller appears to deliver on every front—from the ever-alluring Fan Bingbing who lends a cool authority Neeson’s stoic presence, to the set pieces engineered to make your palms sweat, to the thread of grief and trauma that gives the action some ballast.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Working closely with Perfect Game’s Tournament Operations team, BatWraps engineered its wraps to meet all bat-use requirements.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Its Alia aircraft are engineered for all-weather reliability and designed with quieter sound profiles compared to conventional aircraft.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
The company’s process is engineered to minimize energy waste and emissions, reducing the carbon footprint of industrial manufacturing.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
This one is made from a mix of solid and engineered wood for extra durability, and the slats and center legs keep your mattress in place.
—Jacqueline Tempera, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025
The hull, engineered by Umberto Tagliavini of Marine Design, draws on West Navaltech’s efficient, seaworthy forms but has been tailored for both performance and comfort.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
Accessories include a messenger bag made from 100 percent Optim wool—Woolmark’s high-performance fabric engineered with fiber stretching technology to enhance wind and water resistance—plus a wool hat and scrunchie.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
While the package is stunning, the earbuds have also been engineered to offer crisp, immersive sound.
—New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
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The deal was negotiated between Signature Entertainment’s Acquisitions Executive Max Hart and Kinology’s CEO Grégoire Melin.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Participation alone seems to be the end goal, the assemblage of a cacophony of voices without any avenues to interrogate the way power is shared or negotiated in collective spaces.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Polymarket website on a smartphone arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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The split will reverse a massive but largely unsuccessful 2015 merger arranged by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the investment firm 3G Capital, Heinz and Kraft’s owners at the time.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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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In the area there are multiple objects that can be manipulated to cause a distraction — a feature that will be very familiar to fans of the IO Interactive’s Hitman series.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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But all of it had been manipulated.—
Felipe Schrieberg,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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For one, Leonard signed a max contract—unlike with Smith and the Timberwolves, there’s no claim Leonard and the Clippers plotted a scheme where he’d be paid less in the short term in exchange for being paid more later.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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This was a far cry from a year ago, when Muchová and Osaka played each other in the second round and Muchová plotted Osaka’s movements around the court for her, opening up space, then using her touch to drop the ball into it.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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