engineer
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Molina plays Sam Cooper, a retired engineer — that will be important — being brought grumbling to the Boroughs, a posh, city-sized retirement community plopped down in the middle of the Southwestern desert.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The water vole is often described as an "ecosystem engineer" or a "mini-beaver" by conservationists, as they dig burrows through watercourses and help aerate the soil.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Nguyen Minh Dong, a former Volkswagen emissions engineer who now advises on electrification, called the rush to ban fossil fuel bikes in Hanoi "puzzling".
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The husband is a software engineer, the wife a data scientist.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
He was a civil engineer and a geologist, with a special interest in landslides.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing engineer
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 4
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