as in architect
a person who designs and guides a plan or undertaking
the engineer of a movement to eradicate hunger
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as in to negotiate
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 engineer
Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Then, an engineer working on the film spills his coffee on a computer server, knocking Redream offline with Brandy trapped inside.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noah Rothman, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
The remainder of the trailer shows glimpses of Fielder gazing longingly at a potential love interest, engineering a social mixer of fake pilots and real pilots, delivering testimony at a political assembly, and more.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The engineers group filed its challenge the next day and SEIU Local 1000, the largest state worker union, followed up with its own later that week.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Then, an engineer working on the film spills his coffee on a computer server, knocking Redream offline with Brandy trapped inside.
—Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
Trump has engineered something like a sanctions regime targeting Americans.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
The remainder of the trailer shows glimpses of Fielder gazing longingly at a potential love interest, engineering a social mixer of fake pilots and real pilots, delivering testimony at a political assembly, and more.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineer
Noun
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The award-winning architect behind Studio Anva is overjoyed at how the viral moment has invited people to reconsider the architecture influencing their daily lives.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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The resort, located in White Lake, just 90 minutes from New York City, is a real working horse and cattle ranch, designed and owned by Steve Dubrovsky, a three-time Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association circuit champion and the architect for the neighboring Chatwal Lodge.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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His special envoy to Ukraine set a goal of negotiating an agreement even quicker during the first 100 days of Trump's term.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, negotiates trade deals on behalf of all 27 member states.—
Shannon Carroll,
Quartz,
18 Apr. 2025
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In Season 4 of the Max comedy, Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels have manipulated their way into their respective dream jobs as host and head writer of a late-night talk show on network TV.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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This country is being manipulated by two people — and those too afraid to have the courage to oppose them.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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But the human author was a sort of conductor: prompting, arranging, intervening.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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Oz: On [Richard’s] birthday, Laura arranged for maybe a dozen Civil War reenactors to come galloping onto the set.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineer. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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