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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
Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
Building such fabs would take years, require hiring scarce chip engineering talent, and likely require an investment of over $100 billion, if not more.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025
Sanders completed 23 of 42 passes for a season-high 364 yards, three touchdown passes, and a 7-yard rushing score, including engineering a two-touchdown fourth-quarter rally that fell short after two failed two-point attempts.
—Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Openings are concentrated in health-care sectors, security and safety, and engineering, which on the whole are keeping the job market stable.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
Building such fabs would take years, require hiring scarce chip engineering talent, and likely require an investment of over $100 billion, if not more.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
Another takeaway from the flurry of filings is that WBD CEO David Zaslav stands to take home hundreds of millions dollars for engineering M&A fireworks at the end of his combined company’s rocky run.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025
Sanders completed 23 of 42 passes for a season-high 364 yards, three touchdown passes, and a 7-yard rushing score, including engineering a two-touchdown fourth-quarter rally that fell short after two failed two-point attempts.
—Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineering
Noun
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First selected as a 20-year-old for the white-ball series against Australia in 2024, his introduction into the England environment was love at first sight for all the management involved.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Austin chef David Bull opened the restaurant at the Crazy Water Hotel in Mineral Wells before that hotel changed management.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Schumer on Saturday persisted in arguing that Republicans should accept a one-year extension of the subsidies before negotiating the future of the tax credits.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer argues Republicans should accept a one-year extension of the subsidies before negotiating the future of the tax credits.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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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Pine works swiftly to gather information on Roper's deal and even forms an alliance with his boss's girlfriend Jed (Elizabeth Debicki) who is plotting her own escape.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
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But Izzy Johnston is plotting a way for her Warriors to rise above all those squads.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The company presented Adam, a full-sized humanoid designed for dynamic mobility, alongside Adam-U, a data-collection and training platform focused on precise motion capture and manipulation.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Pine is once again a dynamic hero, relying on skillful manipulation more than brute force.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Unlike conventional breaches that hinge on phishing or user error, this exploit, now known as EchoLeak, bypassed human behavior entirely, silently extracting confidential information by manipulating how Copilot interacts with user data.—
Hugo Huang,
Harvard Business Review,
9 Jan. 2026
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Disney is depicted as manipulating this framework to its benefit and to the detriment of Dish and its customers.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The federal government pays 90% of the costs of Idaho’s Medicaid expansion, which as of early 2025 provided access to care for about 90,000 lower-income Idaho residents who earn too much to qualify for standard Medicaid but not enough for private insurance discounts.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Jan. 2026
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But that’s often in spite of, not because of, government design.—
Sal Rodriguez,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Resist the Temptation to Dig In The hardest part of building a charcuterie board is avoiding the temptation to start snacking as soon as you’re done arranging the board.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Jan. 2026
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As a newcomer to composing and arranging for strings, Simon benefitted greatly by working with a group readily available for consultation and collaboration.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineering. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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