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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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An economic planner and later an engineer at the State Planning Commission, Zhu was purged twice during the tumultuous early decades of the People's Republic.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Born in 1954 in Masjed Soleyman in southwestern Iran and trained as a mechanical engineer, Rezaei joined al-Mansouroun, a guerrilla group fighting the Shah’s regime that became a proving ground for Iran’s future security establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Just ask Temitayo Ogunduyilemi, a Baltimore-based industrial engineer working with bio-medical supply chains.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

The station director noticed the issue only when he heard continuous music instead of the scheduled programme and contacted the engineer, who was aware of the issue and was already investigating.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

So the next day Mr. Popper called an engineer and had a large freezing plant installed in the cellar, and took Captain Cook and Greta down there to live.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

“Samsung chip engineers haven’t traditionally had to think about this type of stuff,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

A buoyant stock market has supercharged capital gains and stock options for the state’s tech workers, while the AI boom has prompted a bidding war for engineers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Materials such as boron arsenide may allow engineers to direct heat along planned routes with nanoscale accuracy instead of waiting for it to spread and then trying to remove it.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Bosses say engineers have been working hard to "build additional resilience into our signalling systems to ensure that this doesn't happen again".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Secretly, he was disappointed that the engineers of America had not yet stepped forward with some novel but feasible scheme to eclipse Eiffel’s achievement.

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

“It’s become clear that this product engineered stone countertops ... cannot be manufactured safely and economically,” said David Michaels, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University and co-author of the study.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Streets were engineered to move vehicles as quickly as possible, while the one road user every citizen inevitably becomes - the pedestrian - largely disappeared from planners' imagination.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

RP1 is engineered to kill tumor cells directly and then trigger a broader immune response.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

It has presumably been engineered by a team, calibrated for refrigeration and focus-grouped into broad acceptability, yet it feels made by no one.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Perhaps—the thought crawled over me like a cold sweat—perhaps even my preliminary, accidental discovery had been engineered.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“Between inference and engineering requirements, it’s driving longer lifespans for even older GPUs,” McBee said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"This is a multidisciplinary study between space science and space engineering," says corresponding author Mamoru Yamamoto.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Strong AI-related demand helped the electronics and precision engineering clusters of the manufacturing sector, as well as the machinery, equipment and supplies segment of the wholesale trade sector, it said.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Apprenticeships are available across a wide range of industries, including business, engineering, construction, healthcare, digital, hospitality and creative sectors.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

He taught surveying, navigation, cartography and military engineering.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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