engineer
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The electrical engineer, who only gave his first name, has sent his wife and 10-year-old daughter to a calmer town away from the front line.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
“There should be processes in place to prevent any one individual from putting hundreds of lives in danger,” says Gareth Dennis, a railroad engineer and author.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
But in order for the $3.3-billion train to open, it will take 30 consecutive days without substantial issues, approvals from the airport and an independent engineer as well as the signed agreements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
An on-floor engineer remarked that they sell their scrap metal, and the price has skyrocketed—something they take as a sure indication that the economy is going down the tubes.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
But the engineer, one bulging arm still around my shoulders, suddenly yanked me towards the train.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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In the case of Binance, the investigation is pointing toward a "compromised" laptop of one of its engineers, in addition to "points of breach", the platform said on X.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Gulliver doesn’t have a traditional accounting background, but her department pairs strong technical CPAs and controllers with data engineers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The research, conducted by engineers at the University of California San Diego, was published in the journal Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Tell that to a generation of mathematicians and computer engineers, who may find themselves threatened.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
All they had going for them, from the point of view of Wall Street financial engineers, was that their financial fates could be misconstrued as uncorrelated.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Kia’s warplan also includes offering unmatched levels of mass-class material quality: faux leather; patterned-quilt upholstery; plushly soft-touch surfaces; engineered wood trim and polished accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
These efforts are aimed at understanding how precisely engineered light can manipulate magnetism at extremely small scales.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
That comes through magnificently on “Fudge,” which was modestly engineered compared to 2024’s “Small Changes.”
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
To overcome this limitation, the Oxford researchers studied an engineered virus-like particle composed of 60 protein units.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 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
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The members, including the board president, are appointed by the mayor and together oversee more than 5,500 people who work for city bureaus and offices that handle sanitation, street lighting, engineering, graffiti removal and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Born in China, Xu moved to the U.S. as a young kid so his father could attend the University of Illinois to study engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Amazon says advanced robotics facilities will require 30% more employees in reliability, maintenance and engineering roles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Russia's defence ministry said units from the army's Dnepr group had been conducting "engineering reconnaissance" and clearing main access roads into the village of "explosive and booby-trap devices".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Isn’t it mind-blowing, the engineering behind something as grand as this entryway? It never ceases to amaze me, but particularly on beautiful days like this,” Mr. Keller says.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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