engineered

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The dairy milk dip coincided with the rise of wellness culture and what Ms. Ning called the influence of tech-bro culture, with its overengineered, health-optimized lifestyle that demonized dairy.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

It’s not the overengineered multitilt rear screen of the Nikon Z9, but it doesn’t feel like a glaring structural weak point.

From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2022

The Segway’s delays, cost, weight, and battery problems all derived primarily from one issue: how beautifully engineered, perhaps overengineered, the Segway was.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2021

And let’s face it, overengineered coffee cups and coconuts are not where human ingenuity should be utilised.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

Distressingly squishy, way too buttery, overwhelmingly smoky-pungent, awfully salty … it seems like they’re going for an extra-fancy version of a drive-in-style burger, but they’ve massively overengineered this thing.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2018