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[en-gayj] / ɛnˈgeɪdʒ /






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In New Hampshire’s Senate race, Republican nominee John Sununu has said it “doesn’t make any sense to engage in a trade war with Canada.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

New launches are “further strengthening our wearable portfolio, offering people new ways to engage with and navigate the world around them,” Milleri and Du Saillant said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Using them for displays and entertainment also denies the animals, who "would naturally avoid humans", the opportunity to engage with their natural instincts, leading to "frustration and stress", the group said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Once in conversation, however, he is generous and deeply feeling, willing to engage in the messy project of shared meaning-making so long as it’s not the meaning of a particular reference, form or setting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I don't want to engage anymore—I want the phone call to be over.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Robert McCartney, an engaged father-of-two, took no part in the violence, according to the few available accounts of what happened that night in January 2005.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Neither country has engaged in major attacks on land-based targets since early September, but that may soon change.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It’s a more engaged board than I’ve ever worked on before,” Herscher said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I know that oftentimes, the logistics of getting engaged and married can take away from the joy of progressing in a partnership.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“After you were gone last night, I told my friend of the struggle that the soldiers found you engaged in on the marshes, when we came up. You remember?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Both companies said they were now "engaging with authorities" suggesting they could file for approval from medicine regulators as soon as next year.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The mood was morose, among both the cast and the students — but then the Austin-based production company Glass Half Full held an after-show talkback, engaging directly with the high schoolers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Tesla shares climbed nearly 2% in extended trading Tuesday after CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is engaging in merger talks with SpaceX.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

I’m as nostalgic as the next Gen X radio obsessive who remembers long rides in my 1980s Mazda, searching the AM spectrum for engaging chatter.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

This suggests that it took a while for Boyle to think of the word ‘fact’ as a respectable term to be used in natural philosophy when engaging with scholastics and Cartesians.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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