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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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Sonam Jorphail, a senior engineer and head of outreach at the IAO, says tourism is creating jobs and driving development in Hanle, but growth must be managed to protect its dark skies.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Another protester, 33-year-old engineer Irene Lopez, told AFP the situation had become "unsustainable".

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Electrical engineer Harold P. Brown, with assistance from Edison and his company, electrocuted animals using AC in public demonstrations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It was founded in 1978 by Steven Loui, a talented engineer and scion of a powerful Hawaiian shipping family.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

My father was an engineer with a job in London.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

Like a tennis player practicing serves, it’s by writing lines of code over and over that young engineers discover how to spot bugs—and learn from their mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Instead, their experience will remain available to astronauts, engineers, flight controllers, and others working on the next stages of NASA's human spaceflight program.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Kao was an unusual figure among the company’s low-key naval engineers and boat aficionados.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

AI meant the work of its human engineers was now "much more efficient" and their use of AI to help stress-test their clients' software had led to "over 53% time saving" for employees.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The engineers for designing any structures that might be needed.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Alabama originally sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in April 2025, alleging the app was engineered to hook young users "just like a sophisticated gambling machine."

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Schmidt had previously engineered mice whose liver cells separately lacked one or the other of the two main disulfide reductases.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

JSerra quarterback Hayes Cloutier, who threw two touchdowns and rushed for three, engineered all three second-half conversions, two with his legs and one with his arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Kicking off Apple’s product event last Wednesday, Ternus described the iPhone as an “intelligent personal hub” that is ideally engineered to deliver AI experiences of the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Getting people to accept them is a much greater hurdle, one that requires a different kind of engineering.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Karl van Bibber, a Berkeley professor of nuclear engineering, served as Seiler's informal adviser on subjects ranging from X-ray imaging to scientific publishing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Some of the most AI-exposed majors included computer science, computer engineering and language majors, researchers said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Luxury architecture firm Foster + Partners and engineering consultants Wintech Ltd were cleared of the same charge.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He’s entranced by physics and mathematics, by surgery and medicine, by philosophy and engineering.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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