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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 engineering
ABC News, 13 June 2026
Siri can also understand what’s on an iPhone’s screen, as Apple vice president of Siri engineering Mike Rockwell showed in another example.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Since then, the editing capability of CRISPR has been tested on everything from developing disease treatments to engineering drought-resistant crops to resurrecting genes of extinct species.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
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Noun
The concept is a bit like a smartphone app that identifies trees or flowers from an uploaded photo, said Solomon Diamond, an associate engineering professor at Dartmouth College who was among several experts at a recent online seminar about the legislation.
—ABC News, 13 June 2026
Siri can also understand what’s on an iPhone’s screen, as Apple vice president of Siri engineering Mike Rockwell showed in another example.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
Verb
But while objections to the idea of engineering immunity to disease have remained essentially the same over the last two centuries, their meaning has changed, transforming what was once arguable into the lies that drive our current peril.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Since then, the editing capability of CRISPR has been tested on everything from developing disease treatments to engineering drought-resistant crops to resurrecting genes of extinct species.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineering
Noun
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The private credit industry’s assets under management are projected to grow to about $5 trillion by 2029, from the roughly $3 trillion at the beginning of 2025, a Morgan Stanley report showed .—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
9 Dec. 2025
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According to the outlet, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC) will ask its risk management board to reassess its threat level for the first time since 2020.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
8 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Reeling from the loss of UCLA and USC, the conference spent months negotiating a new TV deal that would include a commitment from its remaining members to stick together.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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Its findings suggest the ELN is no longer simply a Colombian rebel movement interested in negotiating an end to their ongoing armed struggle, but a transnational actor with powerful incentives to preserve the status quo.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
8 Dec. 2025
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Bertch, who worked as a logistics analyst for a defense contractor, is a transplant from the Pacific Northwest, moving from Seattle to San Diego by way of Idaho.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Oct. 2025
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As a business owner, this technology could reduce logistics costs and ease the impact of driver shortages.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Kainerugaba has threatened to hang Besigye, accusing him of plotting to kill Museveni.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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Prosecutors accused Yoon of attempting to create a crisis with North Korea while plotting an authoritarian power grab aimed at removing political opponents and consolidating control.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
12 June 2026
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Archaeologists have previously noted evidence of postmortem manipulation of human remains, such as mummification, and of modifying human bones into tools or decorative artifacts.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2026
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Beyond agriculture, the sensing technology could find use in other fields that require careful manipulation.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
Verb
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Like Muir, Lustmord’s Brian Williams creates harrowing, light-devouring music by digitally manipulating a vast library of sounds he’s collected via sampling and field recording.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
8 June 2026
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Similar to braiding weak fibers together to make a strong rope, Microsoft’s approach seeks to create topological quantum bits, or qubits, by manipulating multiple Majorana quasiparticles on one device.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
2 June 2026
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Challenge ahead Jackson’s victory was powered by a coalition of suburban and exurban Republicans attracted to his promise to run government like a business.—
Greg Bluestein,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
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And without Burnham’s presence, no Labour leadership race can really materialize despite seven ministers resigning from Starmer’s government since a drubbing for the party in May’s local elections, which do not affect the national government but provide an important indication of the public’s mood.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
Verb
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Well, the young guy has an AK 47 and the young guy was actually arranging for the transfer of explosives.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Dec. 2025
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Some of the girlfriends and wives were involved directly with the operation, managing the mill girls, arranging meetings, and even being directly responsible for moving product.—
Aliya S. King,
VIBE.com,
6 Dec. 2025
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“Engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineering. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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