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to plan out usually with subtle skill or care
the mayor engineered an agreement to have a major league team play in our city
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Recent Examples of engineered
Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
Designed in Turin, engineered in France and Italy, the Avenger’s styling, if not its size, would be at home in an American showroom.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
Although Aardman’s clay supplier has gone out of business, the animation company has engineered a solution.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
Now, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has engineered bacterial spores that can be embedded directly into polycaprolactone plastic, which is widely used in medical care.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched in August 2018 and has been gradually orbiting closer to the sun's surface ever since, Nicki Rayl, NASA deputy director of heliophysics, told ABC News.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
From light bulbs engineered to burn out after a specific number of hours to smartphones that slow down with new software updates, companies have mastered the art of creating products that need frequent replacement.
—Vijay Govindarajan,
daniel J. Finkenstadt,
tojin T. Eapen, Harvard Business Review, 18 Dec. 2024
In an earlier story, ProPublica detailed how Yass and Susquehanna engineered the firm’s investments to transform income normally taxed at the high, ordinary rate into income taxed at the 20% long-term capital gains rate.
—Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
Many rightsholders surround live coverage with docu titles, which are often engineered merely as promotional vehicles or appeasements to league partners.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
Starting at $203,000, the Sportster 25 Surf is the company’s newest, smallest, and sportiest boat, engineered for wake-surfers skilled enough to bob behind a boat cruising at 11 miles per hour.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
Designed in Turin, engineered in France and Italy, the Avenger’s styling, if not its size, would be at home in an American showroom.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
Although Aardman’s clay supplier has gone out of business, the animation company has engineered a solution.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
Now, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has engineered bacterial spores that can be embedded directly into polycaprolactone plastic, which is widely used in medical care.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
The probe, engineered to study the corona -- the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, launched in August 2018 and has been gradually orbiting closer to the sun's surface ever since, Nicki Rayl, NASA deputy director of heliophysics, told ABC News.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
From light bulbs engineered to burn out after a specific number of hours to smartphones that slow down with new software updates, companies have mastered the art of creating products that need frequent replacement.
—Vijay Govindarajan,
daniel J. Finkenstadt,
tojin T. Eapen, Harvard Business Review, 18 Dec. 2024
In an earlier story, ProPublica detailed how Yass and Susquehanna engineered the firm’s investments to transform income normally taxed at the high, ordinary rate into income taxed at the 20% long-term capital gains rate.
—Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2024
Many rightsholders surround live coverage with docu titles, which are often engineered merely as promotional vehicles or appeasements to league partners.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
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This would require new language and agreements from multiple unions, to be negotiated with producers, executives and buyers.Diane Farr, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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As lawmakers negotiated the Finance Bill 2016, Flint introduced an amendment that would require multinationals to publish their CbC reports within their tax strategy reports.Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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One of them, Hip Optical, which touts designer eyewear at non-designer prices, opened earlier this year across from the Apple Store and near True Food Kitchen and BJ’s Brewhouse.Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
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The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.Sha Hua, WSJ, 21 June 2022
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Transfers can be arranged through the resort.Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
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Over three decades ago, the first hiking days were arranged at Blue Hills Reservation in 1992, a state park in Milton, Mass, as part of an initiative promoting healthy lifestyles.Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Erica Mena has offered a public apology to Nicki Minaj, claiming she was manipulated into speaking negatively about the rap icon by their mutual ex, Safaree Samuels.Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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On the same day the camera card was accessed without a write-blocker, which meant it could have been manipulated, the experts said.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
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And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.Nadia Kounang, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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