How to Use engineering in a Sentence

engineering

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  • This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
  • Beyond shape, engineering durability is a key challenge when working with earth.
    — Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
  • To address it, other evidence suggests that enforcement and road engineering ought to work together.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 29 July 2024
  • The Sphere is a cutting-edge concert hall, a marvel of engineering and technology, a visual and auditory feast.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • This feat of engineering is included in another onboard pool system, which empties, fills, and heats independently.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
  • Data centers, which can equal the power usage of a city with several hundred thousand households, can have engineering consequences, the utilities said.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • Serious shoes, of course, are small, wearable marvels of engineering, constructed on a particular last that corresponds to a specific size.
    — Willow Lindley, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
  • And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The current planning and engineering phase of the project is backed by $8.4 million of state funding.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
    — John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Moyer took the day shift, and Jack, who kept his engineering job in Fullerton, came in at night, sleeping on his workbench, a box for a pillow.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Behind the highest dam lies a huge pond, a reservoir kept in place by this feat of natural engineering.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The positions are expected to be in engineering and pay over $50 an hour.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Made to create in both 2D and 3D, these interlocking blocks combine engineering and art for a whole lot of fun.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The original tram that John installed was already a feat of lift engineering.
    — Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Many of them hail from a business and engineering, rather than a military, background.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As is so often the case, the solution is as much a matter of politics as engineering.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Prompt engineering, how people talk to the AI, and having humans in the loop, adds a bit of human wisdom to handle the technology.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Because in engineering, there is only right or wrong, there is only a one or a zero, and there are no gray areas in between.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • Those changes were marked first by a century-old campaign to drain the Everglades to create farmland, and then by the engineering projects meant to restore the flow of water south.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Designing a beach where the sand would hold required engineering.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Stephen retired in 1994 as a director of engineering at BTH.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
  • In some places of the world, Gleick says these conflicts have never stopped, and many have worsened with the advanced engineering made possible in the Second Age of water.
    — The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2023
  • But the owner of that facility hired an outside engineering firm to evaluate the structure and sign off on the structure.
    — Lindsey Pipia, NBC News, 29 May 2023
  • Some people go into fields like medicine or engineering in hopes of earning top dollar.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024

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