engages
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“He engages the white construct in a way that’s intelligent and everything, and then I see this commercial where he’s sitting there playing Aretha Franklin and he’s dancing a jig,” he said.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
The judges said: "A novel that engages with the deeply divisive politics of present-day America, without itself becoming divisive. This is the kind of book we need now: a calm antidote to contemporary events."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rosales makes art that heavily engages car culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Electronic Combined Braking System links the front and rear anti-lock braking system, so that using either the front or rear brake engages both, according to the Riding Mode’s algorithms and the bike’s loaded weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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