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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
Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
Head coach Dusty May has engineered a remarkable turnaround for the Wolverines.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
It was edited by Kenny Malone, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Cena Loffredo.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
These are engineered for road running and provide maximum cushion for comfort.
—Claire Peltier, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
The content is cheap to make, often bizarre or nonsensical, and engineered to grab and hold young (or really, any) viewers’ attention.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
According to Rob Shuter, the plan to keep the two from the Easter service was engineered by Prince William.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas within the materials sector, covering what’s changing in how fashion is made, scaled or engineered from emerging biomaterials and alternative leathers to sustainable substitutes and future-proof fibers.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
At heart, these are traditional workstation graphics cards engineered to handle compute-intensive workloads.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
—Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
To overcome these challenges, the researchers engineered a dedicated flight control board centered on an industrial-grade chip and integrated a dual inertial measurement unit system.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
Head coach Dusty May has engineered a remarkable turnaround for the Wolverines.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
It was edited by Kenny Malone, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Cena Loffredo.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
These are engineered for road running and provide maximum cushion for comfort.
—Claire Peltier, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
The content is cheap to make, often bizarre or nonsensical, and engineered to grab and hold young (or really, any) viewers’ attention.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
According to Rob Shuter, the plan to keep the two from the Easter service was engineered by Prince William.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 1 Apr. 2026
Material World is a weekly roundup of innovations and ideas within the materials sector, covering what’s changing in how fashion is made, scaled or engineered from emerging biomaterials and alternative leathers to sustainable substitutes and future-proof fibers.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
At heart, these are traditional workstation graphics cards engineered to handle compute-intensive workloads.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
Adjective
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Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Verve Talent and Literary Agency’s Amy Beecroft negotiated the deal on behalf of Hideout with Vertical’s Tony Piantedosion.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2026
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As someone whose boundaries could be negotiated away.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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
Verb
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Private museum tours, sandal-making workshops, and boat trips to the nearby islands of Aegina and Kea (where another One&Only opens in 2024) can be arranged.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, weighing in at a thousand pages and containing over 1,400 letters (additions to the 3,766 letters that were published in six volumes, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, between 1975 and 1980), is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.—
Hermione Lee,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Gulf countries import most of their food and manufactured products, and rely on open shipping lanes to export — in addition to hydrocarbons — aluminum, fertilizers, and other goods.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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If the space is challenging, then a pre-manufactured model may not work.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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It’s familiarly plotted, sure, but efficiently acted.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Hodges plotted an aggressive offseason program for the two to take significant steps to playing with more confidence and understanding in 2026.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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
Adjective
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So is the neighbor who was pressured by police to corroborate a concocted story.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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