engineer
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It took an engineer, who had been unable to correct the fault from home, three hours to get to work.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Lakshmi Ketineni is a news room graphics developer and data engineer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"We don't have any news from the airline. We don't know if we stay another day in Jakarta or find another flight," the 32-year-old software engineer told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The senior coroner Caroline Saunders said the former design engineer "sustained a fall at the pub", adding that it happened "following an allegation that he was pushed".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
So the engineer will open something they call a “blow-off valve” to release some of the steam and ease the pressure on the engine.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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“At Optro we’re seeing the rise of what we call audit engineers: hybrid, cross-functional people who understand system maps and data, but truly understand risk and where it sits in the company.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
As the Senegalese engineers assemble their satellite -- wearing hairnets and white gloves as they probe a miniature black box, small enough to be held with one hand -- two destinations have become a priority.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Base salaries for more senior software engineers at AI companies are routinely above $300,000 and equity packages can put annual earnings into the eight-figure range, according to an analysis of Levels.fyi, a salary platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Nats said on Tuesday afternoon that engineers were on site, and it was "working urgently to resume normal operations as quickly as possible".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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“The main living spaces revolve around a dramatic fireplace and connect fluidly to a generous dining area with a sleek wet bar—every detail engineered for both aesthetic impact and effortless use,” the description continued.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
MLB engineered the sale of the Dodgers after previous owner Frank McCourt filed for bankruptcy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The team then engineered three strains of Pantoea agglomerans to function as relays.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo maker says Section 232 ATV duties dropped to 15% from 25%, and BRP strategically engineered new utility models that avoid those tariffs entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I also told them how you were engineered to be really smart and that you are learning new things every day.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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Instead of token limits, Carvana shares what it calls “expectations” concerning each employee’s monthly AI usage level, says Alex Devkar, the used-car retailer’s senior vice president of engineering and product analytics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Ternus, 51, joined Apple's product design team in 2001 and worked his way up to leading the engineering teams behind Apple's entire product lineup, including the iPhones that generate most of the company's revenue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The engineering firm that worked on the 28,000-square-foot Signorello Estate facility said on its website that it cost $20 million to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He had been thinking of going abroad to study mechanical engineering, in Italy or Denmark, but then the protests began, and he decided to stay for the time being and do his part.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Leo was no architect like Annabeth, but he could appreciate the engineering.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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