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
Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
The engineer discovered the masonry was oxidized and needed to be replaced, along with the porch, causing the cost of the repairs to go up $181,000.
—Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 3 June 2025
Chatbots, the senator said, are engineered to hold people’s attention including children.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
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Noun
His wife, a network engineer, has a pending EB-2 visa application and is listed with their children as dependents on his asylum application.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
The engineer discovered the masonry was oxidized and needed to be replaced, along with the porch, causing the cost of the repairs to go up $181,000.
—Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Verb
And that leaves a gap — a gap that Noom hopes to fill with an experience designed to be sticky, supportive, and scientifically engineered to feel less like homework and more like a game.
—Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 3 June 2025
Chatbots, the senator said, are engineered to hold people’s attention including children.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineer
Noun
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Andrew Fuller – Founding architect of HoloLens and Meta’s Orion.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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The hair architect was also behind Chalamet’s soft curls for his Bleu de Chanel campaign images, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Oscars.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
12 June 2025
Verb
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For starters, unlike Trump’s single-minded focus on China during his first-term trade war, Trump 2.0 is sparring with every country on the planet with the ostensible goal of negotiating freer and fairer trade deals, from our closest democratic allies to the Chinese Communist Party.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Here’s the thing, no employee should be left to negotiate basic dignity on their own.—
Aparna Rae,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Verb
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This may surprise the more than 1 million Californians who received $21.65 apiece from the state in mid-May after a settlement reached by state Attorney General Rob Bonta with three gasoline trading firms that allegedly manipulated gas prices in 2016 during another refinery outage.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Not possessed of any special abilities, Achebe instead manipulates his ways into political power in Wakanda.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
Verb
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The park hosts various stargazing events, and larger groups can arrange hour-long astronomy programs (pending staff availability).—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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Fun fact: Cohen arranged the casting contract for his former Goonies costar Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).—
Sarah Weldon,
EW.com,
7 June 2025
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“Engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineer. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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