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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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In a separate set of experiments, environmental engineer Dr. Amit Kumar combined cold atmospheric plasma with gas dispersion to destroy PFAS.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Vitalii Vyshnevskiy, an engineer with DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, was called this spring to attend the aftermath of a strike on one of Odesa’s substations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

The German engineer has lived through sweltering summers since his childhood.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

At OffDeal, engineers and bankers sit side by side, and pay for both groups is tied to closed deals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The company had software engineers shadow bankers for two weeks from 8:30 a.m. to midnight and catalog everything they did to find efficiencies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Among them are the nurses, paramedics, engineers, lorry drivers and factory workers, who keep the country running while everyone else sleeps.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

Troops affectionately referred to the civilian logistics engineers supplying the beverages as “Coca-Cola colonels.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Researchers envision increasing Mars's average temperature by several tens of degrees over a few decades using engineered aerosols or greenhouse gases.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

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

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

The universal popularity of USB-C means the market is now flooded with cheaply made, poorly engineered charging accessories.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

They believed that in doing so Orgoreyn would gain a large and lasting prestige-victory over Karhide, and that the Commensals who engineered this victory would gain according prestige and power in their government.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He was part of the “Dirt Boyz,” a nickname for heavy construction and civil engineering specialists in the Air Force.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Researchers propose engineering extremophiles, microbes that naturally survive harsh environments, by combining characteristics such as resistance to extreme temperatures, radiation, and low atmospheric pressure.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

In these independent benchmarks, external, Kimi K3 ranked first in web interface engineering, outperforming Anthropic's Fable system, external in blind human-preference tests.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The calculus often is as much a business decision as an engineering decision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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