engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /

NOUN

person who puts together things

Synonyms

STRONGEST

architect builder designer director inventor manager planner surveyor

STRONG

contriver deviser manipulator originator schemer sights techie

WEAK

technie

VERB

devise; bring about

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arrange come up with conceive concoct create direct manage manipulate negotiate organize set up supervise

STRONG

angle cause con contrive control cook doctor effect encompass finagle jockey machinate maneuver operate originate plan plant plot rig scam scheme superintend swing upstage wangle work

WEAK

play games pull strings pull wires put one on put one over put over put through

Antonyms

STRONGEST

destroy disarrange disorder disorganize mismanage

STRONG

forget ignore leave alone neglect

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The companies plan to jointly launch an offering aiming to help chief information officers measure value and adopt AI across their engineering groups.

From The Wall Street Journal

The betting for now is that John Ternus, 50, senior vice president of hardware engineering, will ultimately lead Apple.

From Barron's

To test whether restoring pleiotrophin could improve brain function, the team used engineered viruses called viral vectors to deliver it to the right place.

From Science Daily

Some are also making radical career changes, such as going from chef to software engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal

The long-suffering recording engineer reaches his breaking point after becoming totally fed up with the band’s self-absorbed, self-destructive behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

engineer

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