How to Use reengineer in a Sentence

reengineer

verb
  • But the rail authority needed part of the land for its rail route and was willing to pay him to reengineer it.
    Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
  • One Road – is nothing less than an attempt to reengineer the globe to bring everyone to China’s doorstep.
    Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2018
  • The third pathway is when the environment is reengineered to be more resilient.
    Richard Florida, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • The all-wheel-drive Macan Turbo at full whack is a feel-good happy pill reengineered as something that looks like a compact crossover.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2020
  • For these cross-species transplants, also known as xenotransplants, the pig’s genome must be reengineered so that its organs will get along with the new host body.
    Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Back in Chicago, our river literally runs backward, the whole thing reengineered to flush sewage away from the lake.
    Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • To enhance its long-range performance, Sierra has reengineered the GameKing by adding a hollow point and a resin tip.
    Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Quality of candidates no longer matters; the idea is to subtly reengineer the standards of choice.
    Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Inside, however, the gun is all-new, reengineered with a CNCed receiver and sturdy coil springs.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Jan. 2019
  • That’s prompted dreams of reengineering polymerases to write new DNA.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2018
  • The investor has been arguing for a year that Barclays should reengineer its strategy and shrink the unit, which remains a drag on the company’s returns.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Native people reengineered the forests around them, burning land to control underbrush and clear acreage for farming.
    Drew Pendergrass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • The midsize luxury car gets a 3.0-liter V-6 engine, like the first generation, but it’s been reengineered for more power.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Companies and labs like Kaplan’s and Lewis’ picked a lane early on—to either invent a supply of spider silk or reengineer the less-tough silkworm stuff.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • The pandemic has offered a vivid of example of how systemic risk — one of the four shocks reshaping the future of work — forces leaders to reengineer their businesses.
    Forrester, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • And planners kept trying to harness the volatile energy of the corporate world to reengineer the city, with dramatic results and uneven success.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Jackson watched as other festivals in Toronto and New York went (mostly) online and tried to reengineer what Sundance would look like in a pandemic.
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 31 Dec. 2020
  • All seem apt parables for contemporary hubris about reengineering the climate.
    Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Which is why researchers like Kappagantula are trying to reengineer the metal.
    Wired, 15 July 2022
  • Today, there’s an all-new Sprinter that’s been reengineered and reimagined from the ground up with the kind of forward-thinking technology and innovative features Mercedes-Benz is known for.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2018
  • Taken together, the events of early March are the most significant yet in China’s efforts to reengineer the boisterous Hong Kong into a more palatable, and more subservient, city.
    Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021
  • By scaling down strategically, the focus is to reengineer these structures to cope with current demand in a sustainable manner.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • This year, new general manager Perry Minasian didn’t reengineer the entire team.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Two years of reengineering led to the second iteration: better hardware, and also better design.
    Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Even large and profitable companies are needing to reengineer their businesses to battle inflation.
    Dan Mallin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • For the last two years, Athleta designers and technical experts have been working with thousands of women to reengineer and expand the brand’s extended sizing offering.
    CNN Underscored, 31 Mar. 2021
  • These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • President Joe Biden’s Monday signature on a massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal may reengineer the way people and goods move around Utah, while also tapping the brakes on the trajectory of the climate crisis.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The city’s new Whitewater Park, whose intense whitewater proved too enthusiastic last year, has been reengineered for kayakers, inner-tubers, paddle-boarders and even surfers.
    Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2017

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