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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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The retired electrical appliances engineer planted the device on the camera and lit a fuse.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"We are really trying to address the staff shortage, not replace drivers," said Milo Belien, a software engineer at Futurail, a French-German start-up that automates trains.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Also, live demonstrations of Nikola Tesla’s lightning machine, magic and talks, one featuring a chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that’ll delve into the mysteries of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The 34-year-old engineer ended up buying a three-bedroom home with a 10-year ARM at 3.875%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Was he not an engineer with a diploma from Shanghai to prove it?

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

"We will continue to follow the lead of the FAA as our engineers work on the next software update," Boeing said in a statement to AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Roman is already designed to collect this information for scientific observations, allowing engineers to use the same capability to help determine and maintain the telescope's precise position.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Muse engineers said the bot had exploited a permissions setting on his Mac computer he didn’t realize was applicable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Certain engineers handle paperwork needed to certify new airplanes like its 777X, a wide-body model with a history of delays that have cost the company more than $15 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hydraulic engineering was a major concern for the first engineers, such as Leonardo, and consequently an immediate one for Galileo and his disciples.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Even the apples are genetically engineered so that they don't brown easily once cut.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Payne instructed Evans that if that happened, she was to grab his arm, pick up the specially engineered torch that would never extinguish and light the fuse ball together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The researchers also tested urolithin A in engineered human heart tissue created from human stem cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Defense contractors are spending billions to build factories and increase production to stock America’s nearly bare cupboard of highly engineered missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“I thought genetically engineered monkeys were illegal,” he said.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Lunabotics is a university-level competition for teams to use the Nasa systems engineering process to design, build, and operate a lunar robot.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The study was conducted in collaboration with Jerelle Joseph, PhD, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

He earned a degree in applied physics with a minor in electrical engineering from Cornell University, followed by a master’s degree in quantum electronics from UC Berkeley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Egan-Jones, which advises institutional investors, asset managers, and financial institutions, warned firms selling “intellectual capital by the hour,” such as auditing, investment banking, consulting, law and engineering face price erosion from AI competition.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“That was an engineering error, and we’ve already fixed it.”

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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