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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
Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
While there is entertainment from a live DJ, the Guest House is acoustically engineered for conversation, with music layered into the ambiance.
—Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2024
It is engineered to operate effectively in all global conditions, ensuring reliability regardless of the environment.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2024
Again, mice engineered with those mutations slept less, with no obvious health consequences.
—Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
This device, positioned over the brain’s sensorimotor cortex, is specifically engineered to restore hand mobility in individuals with paralysis.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2024
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
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
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Even the bed—a plush, temperature-regulating masterpiece—felt like it had been engineered specifically to cradle you into the best rest of your life.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Dec. 2024
While there is entertainment from a live DJ, the Guest House is acoustically engineered for conversation, with music layered into the ambiance.
—Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2024
It is engineered to operate effectively in all global conditions, ensuring reliability regardless of the environment.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2024
Again, mice engineered with those mutations slept less, with no obvious health consequences.
—Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
This device, positioned over the brain’s sensorimotor cortex, is specifically engineered to restore hand mobility in individuals with paralysis.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2024
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
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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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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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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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The setup is currently being demonstrated in the form of a prototype sleeve which incorporates a total of eight pneumatic actuators arranged in two rows of four.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 Dec. 2024
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The fresh flowers which come by road from Amsterdam are arranged in the hotel’s own floristry on the top floor, with staff taking them home when guests leave.—
Heather Farmbrough,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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The book, which was written in 1948, focuses on the consequences of totalitarianism, the government’s mass surveillance of the public and how truth and fact can be manipulated.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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The actor who plays Sofia Falcone in the HBO series never went method (unlike some Batman villains), but the part required tapping into a character who has been gaslit, manipulated, and isolated from society in every way.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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 Jan. 2025.
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