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verb

past tense of engineer

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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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Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role. — Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025

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That’s the ultimate promise of new research showing lettuce can be engineered to produce myoglobin, a protein found in meat. — Lila Magbilang, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026 In hindsight, the Chicks—the Dixie Chicks until the band changed its name in 2020—were practically engineered to stand in opposition to the country establishment. — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2026 Hosting everything from vibrational yoga sessions and fractal projections to energy alignments and live performances, the resort’s immersive showpiece is engineered to help guests feel sound, not just hear it. — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026 This best-selling two-pack is ideal for creating a sleek style with minimal effort because it’s engineered with non-slip wavy teeth that’ll stay in place all day. — Essence Wiley, InStyle, 10 Oct. 2026 For 35 years, his Virginia Beach firm has engineered fortified homes and shelters for private clients and the military, including a nearly 15,000-square-foot refuge in the Appalachian Mountains and compounds hidden in the Rockies. — Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 An early advocate for the theory that the Covid-19 virus was engineered in and leaked from a lab in China is no longer the leading choice to be America’s top infectious disease expert, a source with knowledge of the decision told STAT. — Anil Oza, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026 The Orion spacecraft that was part of the historic Artemis II lunar mission earlier this year was designed and engineered at Lockheed Martin in Jefferson County. — Donovan Henderson, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026 The large-scale, long-term installation will integrate the ClarosTechUV technology directly into Daikin’s manufacturing operations, creating a continuously operating PFAS destruction system engineered for industrial-scale performance. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered

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If pressure, temperature, flow or level moves away from its set point, the controller adjusts a valve, heater, pump or another manipulated variable.

— Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026

Definition of manipulated

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According to Rover's data, non-designer mixed breeds again pawed their way to the #1 spot — and into America's heart.

— Liz Gray, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Because cap-toe flats were popularized by Chanel, the detail immediately makes even non-designer shoes look more expensive.

— Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of designer

Verb

Detours and shortcuts in the brain The cells and synapses of the brain aren’t arranged in rigid, linear paths for each task and experience.

— Sean Mccabe, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Desperate for actual contact with Holmes, Fielder has arranged to meet her briefly at the prison before Evans shows up.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of arranged

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Some of those most in danger are the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.

— Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
Helen Keller—or her manufactured image, at least—tended to be shining and sweet and noncontroversial.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of manufactured

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But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve.

— Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
By the time the coffee shop building was going up at the end of the route in 1959, Fresco said, interstate freeways were already beginning to usurp Route 66’s role and the Santa Monica route of Interstate 10 had been plotted.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of plotted

Adjective

The middle stretch has a concocted outdoor chase sequence that feels like a clumsy campground slasher.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, Americans should be deeply concerned by the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative.

— Jasmine Baehr , Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026

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