engine
Example Sentences
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Baidu is best known for its search engine, which has earned the company the title “China’s Google.”
From Barron's
The skills gap could also hamper the government's plan to make the defence sector a growth engine for the broader economy.
From BBC
On the morning of Jan. 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549, its engines hit by a flock of birds, hit the Hudson river.
Nor has the city fulfilled a records request from The Times about the whereabouts of fire engines in the Palisades when the first 911 call came in.
From Los Angeles Times
Germany normally is thought of as the engine of the European Union economy.
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