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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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Attempts to exceed that should only be done in highly controlled environments with professional drivers and fire-suppression gear, said Sam Abuelsamid, an engineer and longtime industry analyst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Campaigns are won at the end by momentum," said Joseph Robinson, an engineer who attended the Avila fish-market event in Tampa.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

US chemical engineer Robert Langer, known for work in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering, also often features in Nobel speculation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

They brought in experts Tim Pennells and Michael Parker — the latter is currently Harry Styles’ sound engineer — to run the electronic engineering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The train engineer wore a special hat, though.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Founded nearly five years ago by former Google engineers, the company reached a valuation of $1 billion in 2023 as people flocked to the app for entertainment, roleplay and companionship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Cadent is keeping a road closure in place on Great Winchester Street while engineers complete repairs to the damaged gas pipeline.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Both Driver and his co-founder Zach Nasgowitz are engineers in their mid-20s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

When she started the organization, Naughton noted, there were more talk radio hosts on Capitol Hill than scientists and engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Visbal documents how a single engineered line can reshape an entire wetland as part of a long-term project on the industrial impact on waterways.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The company describes it as the "most technically advanced, powerful and aerodynamic Jaguar ever engineered".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Patients generally must also receive intensive chemotherapy before the engineered T cells are infused.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

That we engineered dogs to communicate successfully with us doesn’t mean the machinery inside their heads works like ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It must have been one of the places where the engineered flowers had first taken root.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

In June, Nicolas Papernot, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, led a team that built a prototype AI worm using freely available AI models.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Sawitskas has recruited a pair of co-workers, Troy Leverton and Pim Renting, who work in various aspects of ride engineering, to help in the task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

After all, one of the biggest pet peeves of modern makers is the perception of their craft as being a frivolous hobby, rather than centuries-old skills that served as a foundation of modern engineering.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

The research was co-led by Scott Uhlrich, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah's John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, with collaborators at Stanford and New York University.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

They lack the engineering skill to make picture-perfect, fly-catching nets.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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