How to Use engineering in a Sentence
engineering
noun- This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
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Beyond shape, engineering durability is a key challenge when working with earth.
—Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
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To address it, other evidence suggests that enforcement and road engineering ought to work together.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 29 July 2024
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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
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This feat of engineering is included in another onboard pool system, which empties, fills, and heats independently.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
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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
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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
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And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
—David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
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The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
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The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
—Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
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The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
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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
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Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
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And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
—John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
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The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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The positions are expected to be in engineering and pay over $50 an hour.
—Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
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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
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The original tram that John installed was already a feat of lift engineering.
—Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
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Many of them hail from a business and engineering, rather than a military, background.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
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As is so often the case, the solution is as much a matter of politics as engineering.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Designing a beach where the sand would hold required engineering.
—Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
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Stephen retired in 1994 as a director of engineering at BTH.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2023
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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
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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
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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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