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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
New Atlas,
21 June 2026
Designed for all ages, the fair features activities and games rooted in science, technology, engineering, and math—from discovering native plants to extracting DNA from apricots and exploring robotics.
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Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Trump serves as the center’s chairman, after engineering a takeover of the arts institution just weeks into his second term.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
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Noun
Low-light operation and high-current operation are also still present practical engineering limits.
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New Atlas,
21 June 2026
Designed for all ages, the fair features activities and games rooted in science, technology, engineering, and math—from discovering native plants to extracting DNA from apricots and exploring robotics.
—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
Verb
Both named methods are forms of engineering a person can trace.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Trump serves as the center’s chairman, after engineering a takeover of the arts institution just weeks into his second term.
—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineering
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Gautam Mukunda writes about corporate management and innovation.
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Union leadership said this week that the league was not formally asked by management to meet and confer over various charter proposals dealing with the LAPD, including the one focused on policy.
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Twice already, in November of 2025 and February of this year, the seven states involved in re-negotiating water rights and use along with the 100-year old treaty kicked the can down the road and failed to come to an agreement on water sharing.
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Now lawmakers and Newsom are negotiating further cuts.
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That’s helped the Saudi economy remain resilient and play a bigger role as a logistics hub for the Gulf.
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This system is intended to bridge a logistics gap between small drones and larger transport aircraft, giving Marines a flexible supply option in difficult environments.
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Registration filed with the North Carolina Secretary of State’s Office earlier this year suggests the all-day café is also plotting a location in the Eastover/Myers Park area.
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Five men were charged on June 16 for allegedly plotting to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House on June 14, the Department of Justice said.
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The artist wanted to address the growing difficulty of distinguishing between reality, manipulation, and representation.
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The strength of neural networks would lie not in the formal manipulation of symbols but in the patterns of neural interconnection activated for various cognitive purposes.
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But Swedish intelligence recently alleged the country was manipulating economic data and that the true inflation rate could be much higher, perhaps as high as 15%.
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Fears of government officials manipulating world events – including the Iran war – to make a quick buck.
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Rahman also filed a claim against the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act in April.
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While governments face pressure to invest in adaptation measures, from cooling centers to heat-resilient infrastructure, experts warn that such steps risk addressing the symptoms rather than the cause.
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Groff, who worked for Epstein for nearly two decades, was a central point-person in arranging the bookings with Amex, documents released by the Justice Department earlier this year indicated.
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The libraries that spent two years arguing that AI companies could not take their work without paying are now arranging to be paid for appearing inside the products built on top of them.
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“Engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineering. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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