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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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It should be a tough time to be a software engineer: Coding is a favorite early artificial-intelligence use case and layoffs are spreading through the tech industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The existence of 764—a group designed to engineer desensitization—asks whether we need to view its members as victims of the content they’ve consumed.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

Its mangled wreckage was recovered in 2001 with the craft handed to Coniston's Ruskin Museum two years ago following the settlement of an ownership row with Bill Smith, the engineer who led its rebuild.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Mr. Ternus is 50 and a hardware engineer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Recently he had a chance meeting with a first-generation Vietnamese American engineer.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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