How to Use reverse engineer in a Sentence

reverse engineer

verb
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  • Think about the end goal and reverse engineer each part of the buying journey with that in mind.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Work Backward to Achieve Goals Set the goal and then reverse engineer the timeline to get there.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The iBoot code is in C, so this is pretty simple to reverse engineer.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Set out to spot blind spots in hiring and reverse engineer solutions that can solve them in the short term and long term.
    — Noa Gafni, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The circuit boards can be reverse engineered to determine the exact route the weapons flew.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Currently in the works is a follow-up study designed to reverse engineer the process.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Knowing the future that’s to come in the ‘71 film, King and co. reverse engineered a number of seeds that would eventually sprout.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That ability means anyone who knows how to put the code in place can also reverse engineer it.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Imagine what the success of your business looks like, then reverse engineer it.
    — Peter Boolkah, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Stroud and Day are likely breaking it down, too, to reverse engineer the solution.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • With an observed pattern of twinkling, the researchers can reverse engineer the star and learn about what’s happening in its core.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For three prudish years, game developers tried to reverse engineer and crack the 10NES’s code.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2020
  • The best way to get started with defining and documenting your mission and vision is to dream big and reverse engineer it.
    — Sam Kaufman, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Hams have reverse engineered many details of the radio’s hardware and software.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Mr Porter has your shopping data and has used it to, in a sense, reverse engineer a product that's designed with the best possible overlap of comfort, style, and the just-right price point in mind.
    — Max Berlinger, GQ, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is a secret recipe that fans have reverse engineered and shared online, basically a mix of ketchup and mayo with Worcestershire sauce and spices added.
    — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
  • Blend was first spotted by a reverse engineer, Alessandro Paluzzi, and later confirmed by the company to TechCrunch.
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In the meantime, someone appears to be working on reverse engineering the software.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 27 May 2023
  • One job ad the indictment points to calls for someone who is an experienced reverse engineer and knows the coding language C++.
    — Matt Burgess, Wired, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Weapons experts say that Iran was able to reverse engineer the U.S. technology to create its own version within three years.
    — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • That makes reverse engineering the malware is much harder.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In public-key cryptography, data is secured by math problems that are easy to solve, but hard to reverse engineer.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2015
  • One of the great engineering challenges now is reverse engineering the human brain.
    — Randy Rieland, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
  • Knowing another person or company spent the time to copy our work, reverse engineer our code ...
    — Brendan Nystedt, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • To reverse engineer that, allowing the movement to shape the policy -- and choose the priorities -- is an apostasy.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Five countries have purchased the weapon; China has reportedly reverse engineered a version of its own.
    — Paul Scharre, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Turning Tobacco Into Cocaine To learn more about the process, the team had to reverse engineer cocaine by tinkering with the genes in another plant, in this case tobacco.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The new product uses the Gemini 1.5 Pro large language model, which Google says reduces the time needed to reverse engineer malware attacks.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 6 May 2024
  • Moscow worried that the Chinese might reverse engineer the technology and figure out how to produce it themselves.
    — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Hackers will eventually reverse engineer this one after the patch comes out.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 25 Apr. 2021

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