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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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That crew member was 30-year-old Karmarkar, the third engineer of the GFS Galaxy, a containership that had left the port of Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Each smaller than a grain of rice, the sculptures pays tribute to Nobel Prize-winning physicist CV Raman and aerospace engineer and former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, besides Sarabhai.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

After spending the early 2000s as an engineer in Silicon Valley, he observed that the memory industry was slowly migrating away from its U.S. origins to Japan, then Korea and Taiwan.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Concerns of distillation are largely overblown, according to Florian Brand, research engineer at AI company Prime Intellect.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The best defense against an infantry assault was an entirely new weapon, the machine gun, invented by an American-born engineer named Hiram Maxim.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

They were ancient Italy’s first great engineers, ambitious road-builders who drained land for development and showed the Romans how to build their famous aqueducts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The delay has frustrated Google’s engineers and AI researchers, Bloomberg reported.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

Investor-appointed directors, founders and engineers won’t unleash technology likely to kill their own families.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The centre now brings together more than 200 researchers, engineers and technicians working with collaborators around the world.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

It pleased him to see America’s civil engineers at last expressing passion for the fair, although in fact the directors had promised nothing to Eiffel.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Last year, Hidden Valley unveiled the first major redesign of its packaging in decades: an upside-down bottle engineered for optimal squeezing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

A number of Americans previously considered wrongfully detained in China have been freed, including in swaps engineered between Beijing and Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Instead of relying on expensive, highly engineered metamaterials that have traditionally been needed to generate optical skyrmions, the NTU team created them by shining a laser at a small circular disc.

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

"Our approach relies on engineered metamaterials that are designed to control how waves propagate."

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

They believed that in doing so Orgoreyn would gain a large and lasting prestige-victory over Karhide, and that the Commensals who engineered this victory would gain according prestige and power in their government.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

“The process, the calibration, the persistent engineering, the kinematic simulation, the temperature, all that scheduling is kind of the same at this level of product,” Nicolson said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Moonshot AI noted that the system is uniquely built to operate with "minimal human supervision" to sustain tasks such as engineering and coding.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Niklas Gustavsson, Spotify’s chief architect and vice president of engineering, said the audiostreaming platform decided against giving its engineers the latest two versions of Anthropic’s most advanced Opus models.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Jeep and Fiat owner Stellantis said in May it had formed a joint venture with China's Dongfeng to share manufacturing, sales and engineering operations on the continent.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

We were so prepared, we even had detailed engineering diagrams—in crayon—of what the rescue would look like.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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