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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
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have engineered a harmless virus into a nanoscale delivery platform that could help create personalized cancer vaccines. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026 Two weeks after befuddling football fans from Duluth to Daytona Beach, Texas PAC engineered an even more straightforward placement by snapping up a unit in NBC’s Sunday Night Football. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026 Patching can’t keep pace In many of these incidents, the remedy is a patch, a software update engineered to close the vulnerability. — Shae Lake, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 The painterly storybook scenic design by Ann Beyersdorfer, engineered for maximum efficiency, is also lovely and blends beautifully with the Loquasto’s color palette. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 Watson has engineered a game-winning drive in all five of Cleveland’s victories this season. — Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026 The urban middle classes are in despair because the bursting of a real estate bubble — deliberately engineered by Xi — has evaporated the value of their main asset. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026 The stealth version is engineered to be worn and forgotten, closer in spirit to thermal underlayers than to ski outerwear. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 That backdrop, engineered by department heads like production designer Bob Shaw and costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone, remains magnificent. — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
  1. manipulated
  2. negotiated
  3. designer
  4. arranged
  5. manufactured
  6. plotted
  7. adulterated
  8. concocted
Adjective
  • If pressure, temperature, flow or level moves away from its set point, the controller adjusts a valve, heater, pump or another manipulated variable.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of manipulated
Verb
  • The current agreement, which was negotiated and signed toward the end of the Obama administration, is set to expire at the end of fiscal year 2028.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • According to various reports, Joe went out and negotiated a new contract without telling Troy.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of negotiated
Adjective
  • According to Rover's data, non-designer mixed breeds again pawed their way to the #1 spot — and into America's heart.
    — Liz Gray, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of designer
Verb
  • Acting on flimsy pretenses, Bianco arranged in February for the seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots, questioning the integrity of the election months after the fact.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • It's arranged into an L-shape around a terrace, creating a home designed to embrace indoor/outdoor living.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of arranged
Adjective
  • Sutley, a structural engineer at the University of Kansas, has brought manufactured homes, which were once called mobile homes, to Miami to destroy them.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Once cleaned and prepared, the shells can be deployed in restoration sites as loose shells, in bags, or within manufactured wire reefs.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of manufactured
Verb
  • Still, despite the edginess of the film—which is arguably better plotted than the original—Moore isn’t wrong about treacly Hollywood politics sweeping in.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • From there, the wedding was plotted via weekly Zoom meetings with the Matthew Oliver team, particularly their lead planners Bertie and Georgia, while the Turkish team tended to be most comfortable over WhatsApp.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 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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