ENGINEERING Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in management

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verb

present participle of engineer

as in negotiating

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

Noun

Known for her calm and candor on earnings calls during challenging times for Europe’s luxury giants, Cabanis is an engineering graduate from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon. — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026 The price of gasoline may move higher over the coming days as the latest spike in oil costs filters its way through to the pump, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Houston, told ABC News. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Verb

Venezuela would be Hanke’s biggest dollarization yet in a nearly 50-year career of engineering the biggest ones on three continents. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 This strategy enables the immune system to selectively attack tumor cells, either by linking them to T cells or by engineering T cells directly. — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for engineering

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Noun

The third-year head coach learned from his team management mistakes from a 3-9 season that ended with eight consecutive losses.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Recently, bond traders and asset management firms from London and Sydney to Singapore have begun noticing a shift in Japanese capital flows.

— , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of management

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Still, there was much pomp and circumstance at the gala in July, and many thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing and jewelry plus plenty of vertiginous heels negotiating with the gravel.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
The five countries have been negotiating with governments mainly in Africa over potential sites, pioneering the initiative for the whole of the EU.

— Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiating

Verb

Messages reviewed by the researchers showed agents plotting ways to evade detection, use tools such as Tor and preserve communications even after they had been shut down.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Now, in early 1943, the 33-year-old Flynn — the country’s biggest movie star — was plotting his flight from the American justice system.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of plotting

Noun

That also will include a network to share information about online threats and manipulation, said Jane Kleeb, the chair of the group and of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Or was the whole thing a connivance and Mitzi Blinkhorn always destined to win, thanks to some Machiavellian manipulation behind the scenes?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of manipulation

Verb

Last Wednesday, Meta reached a settlement with the attorneys general of forty-seven states, who had sued it for illegally manipulating the attention of children.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
The experiment, therefore, suggests that empty space itself could become a new tool for manipulating quantum matter, much like other efforts to push the limits of superconducting materials.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulating

Noun

Many South Koreans believe the government needs to do more to address the root causes behind the epidemic.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
Under a government policy in effect from 1979 to 2015, many were limited to having one child.

— HUIYEE CHIEW AND LYRIC LI THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of government

Verb

The case turned into a years-long legal saga, with multiple people convicted of their roles in arranging the hit, including Wendi’s brother, Charlie Adelson, and her mother, Donna.

— Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Britain’s populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.

— NBC news, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

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