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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The desire to escape her consulting job also motivated Rachel McGrath, a former oil-and-gas engineer, to become a searcher after she learned about it at Harvard Business School.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

"I woke up this morning and I didn't have to carry my ID anymore," Maria Jesus Walda, a 34-year-old civil engineer, told AFP as she headed into Gibraltar.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Peter Rawlinson, the chief engineer on Tesla’s Model S who led Lucid after it went public, left the company in February 2025.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Understanding how objects react to moving fluids could help engineers improve machines that capture or convert energy from flowing liquids.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

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

From BBC Jul. 13, 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

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

Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have identified the strait as a persistent vulnerability that must be engineered around.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 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

To investigate, Strittmatter and his team produced 4,400 groups of cells, each engineered to display a different surface protein.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

It was Elizebeth who engineered their final breakout.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Jingqiu Liao is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

At Shopify, for instance, engineers aren’t allowed to use less powerful “non-frontier” AI models, says Farhan Thawar, vice president and head of engineering at the e-commerce company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Julie Keeler, 60, has run an engineering firm in the capital for 35 years, but believes the plan could put additional pressure on businesses.

From BBC 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

The Haitian American engineering feat at Cange was not a case of simple technology; the pipe bringing up the clean, sparkling water from the underground river could not have happened without sophisticated engineering.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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