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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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From the age of 10 to 15, Kelly lived in Saudi Arabia on account of his engineer father’s job.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Gorakh Khatka, an engineer who had been in the Shanti Bazar area near the epicentre of the disaster, ran for his life.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Arturo Bejar, the ex-Instagram engineer turned whistleblower, says the proof of the pudding will be in whether the new teen safety features are effective.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Mr. Cockrell shared some fleshed-out ideas that the band, working with engineer and co-producer Shawn Everett, quickly turned into completed songs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Recently he had a chance meeting with a first-generation Vietnamese American engineer.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Massive teams of engineers and scientists — including personnel from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — have worked for over a decade to develop the $4.3-billion telescope.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Meagher said council teams and engineers had carried out "painstaking" work in order to make the site safe.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Employers want engineers who can use AI to move faster while also checking what it produces, Annavaram said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

More than 100 Poolside employees, including engineers, will join Nvidia and will work on the chip-designer’s Nemotron project—an effort to develop open-weight models that Nvidia debuted in 2023—according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

“Our battalion is made up of field engineers and we use only the mighty ogbunigwe.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Some players felt Guehi had engineered the contact, others believed it was a clear holding offence.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

In a study published in Science Advances, the team used BifidoSumIL-2, an engineered strain of Bifidobacterium longum, a probiotic bacterium naturally found in the gut, to carry an immune-stimulating treatment directly into tumors.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,” said David Michaels, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University and co-author of the study.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Genetically engineered bees were developed in 2092, but could only provide sixty-three percent of natural function.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Authorities have sent engineering teams to monitor the lake's water levels and the atmospheric conditions.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Business investment was up, with a rise in spending on machinery and equipment as well outlays on engineering structures, following two straight quarters of declines.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Many of the roles were in software engineering and machine learning, according to the filings.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

The miner’s efforts to open a Peruvian silver-mining project at Royropata are progressing, and engineering works at its Monte do Carmo gold project are nearing completion, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

“There are rumors it is hidden in an ancient engineering work. We believe it could be sealed within one of the gates of the Panama Canal.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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