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
Trackside general manager and chief engineer Shintaro Orihara says Honda "observed a step forward in terms of performance from our metrics".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
A marine engineer by training, she started working at the canal in 1985 when it was controlled by the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
At the outbreak of World War II, Hans joined the US Army as a captain, working as a mining engineer.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
To supplement the humans’ work and reduce costs, AI engineers can prompt an AI “teacher model” to give answers to questions and explain its answers.
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
The WSJ’s Raffaele Huang explains: “AI engineers can prompt an AI ‘teacher model’ to give answers to questions and explain its answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Crypto trading platform Coinbase has already fired engineers who didn't complete AI training, as requested by the chief executive, Brian Armstrong, external.
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
The extensively engineered retaining wall and thoughtful landscaping transformed the property into a series of expansive outdoor living spaces designed for entertaining, decompressing, and fully embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Social media, as it is engineered to do, raged over the call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
MLB engineered the sale of the Dodgers after previous owner Frank McCourt filed for bankruptcy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Apple Wednesday showcased both its first foldable iPhone and CEO John Ternus, who before becoming Apple’s third CEO last week led the hardware engineering unit behind the foldable feat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
"Because water is generally much cheaper than electricity," companies have less incentive to cut water use on cost grounds alone, said Shaolei Ren, an engineering professor at the University of California, Riverside.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Mechanical engineering? Grandma? But she’s a real estate agent!”
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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