- present participle of engineer.
engineering
Example Sentences
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Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, then studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But Hamilton and her team had planned for such an error by engineering "priority-driven software" to shut down any background tasks and favour the most important - the Moon landing - according to MIT.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
They brought in experts Tim Pennells and Michael Parker — the latter is currently Harry Styles’ sound engineer — to run the electronic engineering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Instead of requiring patients to wait while their cells are collected, modified, expanded, and returned, the necessary genetic engineering could potentially happen inside the patient.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Or he’d point out a stone wall and say it was a perfect example of engineering.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Engineering - Introductory
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