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noun

Definition of engineeringnext
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
The ships’ biggest engineering advantage may ultimately be their ability to adapt. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026 And journalists and analysts often return from visits offering rosy-eyed panegyrics about China’s gleaming transit systems and engineering capacity. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
This is especially true if the risks are actually existential ones, such as engineering a bioweapon. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 This is how humanitarian technologies help shape the future of engineering itself. — Mary Ellen Randall, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for engineering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineering
  1. management
  2. negotiating
  3. logistics
  4. plotting
  5. manipulation
  6. manipulating
  7. government
  8. arranging
Noun
  • While some financial advisors have asset minimums, others may charge one-time, hourly or monthly fees rather than a percentage for assets under management.
    — Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • That’s because bank stocks are particularly difficult to forecast, given that their performance depends heavily on macro factors rather than information that management might have about the company.
    — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of management
Verb
  • Passman additionally teamed with Salomon to represent Zac Brown in connection with his Sphere residency and 2026 tour, with Salomon also negotiating Brown’s new publishing agreement with Sony.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In the statement, Skydance said savings would come primarily from combining technology and other operations, such as negotiating deals with suppliers and reducing overlapping marketing expenses as well as consolidating real estate.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of negotiating
Noun
  • The roadmap calls for a terminal there using Iranian investment, along with warehouses, a logistics park and grain and vegetable-oil facilities.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Automating parts of a logistics workflow is not the same thing as building homes without construction workers.
    — Svenja Gudell, Fortune, 18 July 2026
Definition of logistics
Verb
  • Torture of political opponents The indictment details several cases involving military officers, opposition figures and other detainees accused of plotting against Maduro.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Jair Bolsonaro is now serving a 27-year prison sentence under house arrest after being convicted of plotting to overturn that election and prevent Lula from taking office.
    — Catherine Osborn, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of plotting
Noun
  • RoboParty is also expanding PartyOS to cover areas including humanoid locomotion, perception, whole-body manipulation and autonomous robot intelligence.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Former president Dilma Rousseff, who succeeded Lula in 2010, was impeached in 2016, having been accused of budget manipulation.
    — Chloe Taylor,Thomas Da Graca Barlow, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of manipulation
Verb
  • Present-day police work reflects our current economic order by placing a high value on manipulating such immaterialities.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • According to Treasury, Galeano had been detained in the United States in 2017 on suspicion of manipulating ATMs and was found with drugs and backpacks containing a large amount of cash.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of manipulating
Noun
  • The technology that investors and governments are counting on to lift the global economy is also adding pressure that threatens growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers to stop delaying painful choices on debt.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The government that came soon after brought it all to a screeching, heavily consequential halt.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of government
Verb
  • Newsom was arranging a tour of Southern states later in the summer, specifically to get his face in front of South Carolinians.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
  • When clients or surrogates travel to California for important medical milestones, Tang and Sonnenberg are often there themselves—arranging schedules, accompanying appointments, and ensuring that days defined by medicine retain a sense of humanity.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranging

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