engineer
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Tesla’s event is scheduled to kick off after the market closes on Thursday in downtown Austin, according to Eric Earley, the Cybercab’s chief engineer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
He said friend of the club worked as the monitor engineer for Fontaines D.C., and helped get a size 3XL to Chatten.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“The most important point is that mine warfare is a game of unknowns,” said Scott Savitz, senior engineer at Rand and specialist in naval operations and technologies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Ternus earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as an engineer at Virtual Research Systems before joining Apple.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Jean-Victor Poncelet was a student of Monge’s who learned about three-dimensional geometry as he trained to become an engineer for Napoleon’s army.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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If humanity someday sends a probe to another star, engineers will need a detailed understanding of every force that could affect its journey.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
It has also introduced bootcamps for engineers and in-person experiential sessions for partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Inside a shipping container beside the field, the engineers highlight on a computer the area they want the aircraft to spray.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Nepali army troops and engineers were working on Sunday to rescue workers believed trapped in a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A hydroelectric site after they successfully inserted a pipe into the passage.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
One of the engineers wanted me to help him analyze some data from a flight test.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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In the application for evidence, Uefa claims that Infantino engineered the plan in order to enrich himself and the potential private investors.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The reversal in yields engineered by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s buyback plan lasted just a day after federal borrowing crossed $40 trillion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"These structures can be systematically doped with silver and other ions and engineered to interface seamlessly with perovskites -- transforming DNA from a biological macromolecule into a programmable, multifunctional nanomaterials platform."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
One is synthetic DNA, made from commercially available, chemically engineered molecules arranged into short genetic sequences tailored for specific electronic requirements.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
I tried to imagine myself moving lightning fast on the strip with this new weapon that seemed engineered for speed.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Martin Limpert, managing director of Range Rover, called the new model the result of a decade of "considered engineering".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Instead, it allowed construction to continue because it found the trust unlikely to have standing, and credited the government’s warnings that a halt could create national security, engineering, and operational problems.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The therapy, known as rap-cel or YTB323, is a cell therapy called CAR-T that works by removing a patients’ own immune cells, engineering them in a lab and infusing them back into the body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"We have engineering capabilities, we have software and AI capabilities, robotics capabilities -- it is a great combination that would be hard to replicate somewhere else."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Lots of difficult engineering work remained, but the fundamental problem had been solved.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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