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[en-geyj] / ɛnˈgeɪdʒ /






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While hedge funds cannot engage in riskless arbitrage, they can and probably will trade the spread.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“The Iranians may be less willing to engage diplomatically because they’ve been burned several times in the past,” she said.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

“They can’t engage at all. They can’t even know what they’re accused of having done,” Lee said.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

He or she was to “implement and study innovative approaches for building research capacity in order to engage and retain students from a range of institutions and diverse backgrounds in STEM.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

When the marines had first arrived at Da Nang, the orders had been clear: “The U.S. Marine Force will not, repeat will not, engage in day-to-day actions against the Viet Cong.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The Golding who emerges from these four novels is less interested in society than he was in “Lord of the Flies,” and more engaged with the conditions that make society possible in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

That comes as President Bola Tinubu has engaged in a raft of reforms, hailed by economists and investors, including liberalising the naira currency exchange rate, overhauling the tax code and removing a costly fuel subsidy.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

"We have engaged a team of experts to find out what exactly happened and how. We will take action on the basis of the findings," Tamang told reporters.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

“Whether Americans fully stop working, phase into their retirement or pursue new ways to stay engaged, healthcare consistently remains one of the largest expenses they will face,” Talib said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

“Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

They have been documented engaging in "wave washing" -- cooperating to create choppy waters that knock seals off sheets of ice so they can be more easily captured and eaten.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Instead of only telling patients to sit less, physicians may eventually encourage them to limit television time and choose more mentally engaging activities when they are seated.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

Some scholars have suggested that though their faces do not look upward, they are bearing witness to Mary’s coronation and thus engaging with colonial religious views.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

There’s no point in engaging with a debt-management company in order to get rid of this $35,000 if you don’t do some serious soul-searching about how you got into this hole in the first place.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

If you can create the right framework, all of a sudden, engaging in the kind of fluid, effortless, spur-of-the-moment dialogue that makes for good improv theater becomes a lot easier.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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