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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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So he tried his hand as a computer engineer, working at Copenhagen-based Aller Media and then Pistachio, a Norwegian cybersecurity firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Software engineer Simon Martin, 44, who lives in Ancoats, recounted how a cab driver told him he would have hesitated once to pick him up, when the area was riddled with crime.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

Federal Reserve officials showed no desire to engineer a series of interest-rate hikes at their policy meeting in September, according to minutes of the gathering that were released Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mr. Ethan W. Barris is an engineer and architect of some renown, and the second of the guests to arrive.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"Our designers are just up the road in Leamington Spa, engineers from across the West Midlands and further afield," Davey added.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

By collecting information about impacts, seismic activity, and the surrounding environment, LEMS-SP could help engineers develop safer and more reliable infrastructure for a permanent Moon base.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Hiring young engineers with no knowledge of Washington wasn’t wise or effective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The figures run roughly 50% above the number of emigrants in the same time frame a decade ago, draining doctors, engineers and Ph.D.s in what Israeli lawmakers have called a “tsunami.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

I was sitting at my desk when one of the engineers picked up the phone and was amazed to receive that call.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

A draft of the study didn’t propose only one solution but advocated for 23 different strategies, including bluff stabilization, catchment walls, sand placement, engineered revetments or seawalls and rail-foundation improvements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Producing engineered immune cells directly inside the body, an approach known as in vivo manufacturing, could potentially remove the need for this preparatory chemotherapy as well.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

That we engineered dogs to communicate successfully with us doesn’t mean the machinery inside their heads works like ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Stafford engineered a nine-play, 98-yard drive that Williams finished with a one-yard touchdown run to cut the deficit to 20-17 with less than four minutes left.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Even if in New Orleans this machinery was sometimes slow, or poorly engineered, generally it functioned.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

The team's famous software engineering was immortalised in a 1969 photograph of Hamilton standing beside the stack of printed code that towered beside her.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Joby independently developed its air data system through years of its own engineering and manufacturing work, and we stand firmly behind the integrity of that work and our conduct.”

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

US chemical engineer Robert Langer, known for work in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering, also often features in Nobel speculation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

I took my test in Paris, in the basement of an engineering school not far from my apartment.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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