How to Use engineer in a Sentence
- Design engineers are working on ways to make the cars run more efficiently.
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Joining him was a friend, Ghaith Akel, a jovial tech engineer.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 28 May 2023
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Ford engineers are already working on the 2024 race truck, which is based on the current Ranger sold around the world.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
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Years later a friend set Quinn and Richard, 43, a software engineer, up on a date.
—Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
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Sung-Ho Tsai, an engineer taking the class, asked earlier in the evening.
—Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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Some of these projects that I’m involved with have thousands of engineers, right?
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
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The award is presented to the artist, as well as the producer and recording engineer.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023
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The owner of the home, Markus Beck, a 46-year-old software engineer, had been on a crime spree, officials said.
—Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
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But the engineer took issue with the fact that this implied that the city was responsible.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
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The Houston trio tracked the album with engineer Steve Christensen.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2024
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But Meier believes those earthquakes were due to poor planning on the part of engineers—avoidable, with more careful study of the rocks.
—Gregory Barber, WIRED, 19 July 2023
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Jaja wants Marie to be a doctor, or, as a backup, an engineer.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
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The engineer complied just in time to show Putin’s annual call-in show, which lasted around four hours that day.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 22 June 2023
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He can only be heard through the headphones worn by his recording engineer, Isaiah, at the desk.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
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With the backing of Meta, Threads has a team of engineers that volunteer-run networks like Mastodon can’t rival.
—WIRED, 6 July 2023
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Anything else, SpaceX said at the time, meant extra data for engineers to review.
—USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
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Back at the mixing console, Maurice’s skullbud picks up two engineers whispering about pay cuts in the next room.
—Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
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Grammy and Emmy-winning engineer, Clark Germain, will record and mix the entire project.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 June 2023
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And then there was his passion for training knowledge engineers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2024
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This led engineers to believe the spacecraft had broken apart or burned up during re-entry.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
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The engineer on watch forgot to throw a switch that would prevent the generators from overheating, leading to the outage.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
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Roughly half of the company’s workforce, including key engineers, was forced out as Musk looked to slash costs to pay off nearly $13 billion in debt.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
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Aidan worked as an offshore chemical engineer before his death, per the reports.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
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So the committee has consulted engineers, and come up with a solution: Treating it with UV light to kill the bacteria.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
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In July, the Corps built a sill in the Mississippi at river mile 64, which brought the bottom of the river up nearly 35 feet, and Corps engineers are currently working to expand the sill.
—Isa Meyers, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
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One day, a fellow student told her to check out a NASA notice at the post office seeking engineers for astronaut training.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
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Another type of adventure:An Atlanta engineer rode every Disney ride in the world in 12 days.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
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At the time of the 2011 earthquake, Konno was working as an engineer at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in the prefecture to the north of the Daiichi facility.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
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Dad was an engineer, mom was a homemaker and Barb was the family mascot, blond and adorable, watching her brothers and sisters finish school and go on to their careers.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
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The city is waiting for a report from its marine structural engineer that Cetin says will give a better idea of the potential options for stabilizing the pier.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
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Roy engineered it so that the train would ditch the engine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
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For his team, the focal point was engineering with air.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
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Segall co-produced the 15-song LP with Cooper Crain, who also engineered and mixed the project.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2024
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The new album was engineered and mixed by Cooper Crain, who also co-produced the record with Segall.
—Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
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Over the past six decades, Autry Stephens has worn nearly every hat in the oil industry, from trucker to driller to engineer.
—Devon Pendleton, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
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Anastasia engineered her escape from the Howard Johnson one evening in the late summer of 2013.
—Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
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Yeti coolers are engineered to be put through tough conditions and still get the job done at the highest level.
—Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
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In his third year, Bernard was promoted to engineer, in his fifth year captain, in his twenty-fourth year deputy chief, and now fire chief.
—Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023
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Yet the left lacks the support structures for activist students that the right has engineered over several decades.
—Claire Potter, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
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Econoboxes aren't exactly engineered to stand out from the crowd, but the Mazda Protegé ES does.
—Jim Caiozzo, Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
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The audio and video are engineered in-house at NPR, an act of submission that’s rare in a world where stars seek to control every part of their image.
—Adlan Jackson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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The duo engineered an amazing comeback to survive the second leg in Colombia and fourth overall in season 36.
—Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
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Apple was in poor financial shape at the time, but Ms. Cotton worked with Jobs to engineer a striking turnaround.
—Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
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But the Rams let this one get away when quarterback Jalen Hurts engineered a touchdown drive to vault the Eagles back into the lead as time expired in the second quarter.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
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That invited Purdy to shake off his slippery-when-wet start and engineer a go-ahead touchdown drive.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
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Apple launched a free standalone app for sports fans, Apple Sports, which is engineered to fire scores and stats to your iPhone as quickly as possible.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
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The team formed their company in 2008 and then took a few years to engineer and produce the solution, with Liang and Chen both moving to India for a few years to get it off the ground and market test it there.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
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The bitchy bon mots might as well be engineered for portioning into TikTok-sized soundbites, the outrageous plot twists for drawing gasps in the group chat.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
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For that study, the team also engineered mice to have higher than normal levels of the protein—these mice performed better on maze tests than normal mice.
—WIRED, 3 July 2023
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But China is now poorly positioned to engineer such a shift.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
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Ampere engineered its chips based on designs from Arm Holdings, whose chips run most smartphones.
—Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 28 June 2023
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However, many high end stools are engineered with stain-fighting properties to put your mind at ease.
—Addie Morton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2024
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Adjusting to a new team and new system isn’t a first for Dubois, who got his wish to be traded away from Columbus — which had drafted him third overall in 2016 — and then worked with the Jets to engineer the trade to the Kings.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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The all-wheel-drive system, however is engineered more for on-road control and performance.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
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The design of the highly versatile model was engineered so that its owner can tweak it to their particular tastes and needs.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
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And to keep the views unobstructed, the building has been engineered with no vertical supports except its walls.
—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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Nichols also engineered these baits to fall at a consistent rate that’s not too slow and not too fast, resembling how live shrimp ride the tide as closely as possible.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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In fact, the sport has become so popular that brands are engineering these products for more than 18 holes on a Sunday afternoon.
—Michael Loré, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
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In so doing, the therapy reduced the buildup of beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles—hallmark features of Alzheimer’s—in the brains of mice engineered to mimic the condition.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024
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With the win, Minnesota State engineered a clean sweep of basketball titles as its women’s team won on Friday.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
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