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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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On July 6, 2010, Messrs. Jones, Malcom, Sadiki and Stewart, along with Erik Denson, an engineer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, dived on site 2-04, where they believed the Guerrero to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Robia and her colleague Jojo are the DIY creations of Pakistani engineer Syed Osama Aziz, who is bringing a sci-fi reboot to Karachi's storied dining scene.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

"It's about as complicated as manufacturing gets," says Ben Fifoot, manufacturing engineer at Rolls-Royce, which makes turbine blades in the UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Arizona resident Jay Pea, a former software engineer and the founder of the nonprofit Save Standard Time, also wants to put an end to the twice-annual clock adjustments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Sitting at the control board was my dad the engineer, years younger, examining a printout no larger than a grocery receipt.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Nvidia has been around for decades, with Huang founding it with two other engineers in 1993, but its rise to one of the world's most valuable and powerful companies has only been recent.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

That meant engineers had to make the most of their limited communication windows.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Demand for forward-deployed engineers is leading to $1.5 million paychecks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

OpenArt was founded in 2022 by former Google engineers Mao and John Qiao.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

A month later both Thomas’s dad and my dad were laid off, along with a whole bunch of other engineers at Harris.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

A specially engineered chewing gum could offer an unexpected new weapon against viruses and bacteria linked to head and neck cancer.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Scientists have recently been exploring whether natural killer cells could be engineered in a similar way.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

There, technicians separate the T cells, genetically modify them to produce the desired receptors, and grow enough engineered cells for treatment.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

They can be programmed to attack harmful T cells without triggering the same problem of engineered T cells killing each other.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

“Gone out on a blind date that’s been engineered by my mom.”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The pictures are a paean to contemporaneous engineering but also include examples of ancient constructions for comparison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

"The open question is cost" as "training on Chinese chips usually takes more time and more engineering".

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Other directors include an engineering professor who advised President Joe Biden, the National Football League’s former marketing chief, a former pharmaceutical-company executive and four professional investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Huang met his wife Lori at Oregon State University, where she was also studying electrical engineering and was his lab partner.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

They were lectured in military engineering and taught to read maps.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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