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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
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 June 2026
Ys was co-produced by orchestral pop trailblazer Van Dyke Parks and engineered by punk icon Steve Albini, the only time those two prolific legends worked on the same album.
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Al Shipley,
SPIN,
29 June 2026
Saab says the submarine is engineered to operate quietly while supporting intelligence gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance, and naval combat missions.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 June 2026
Ujiri engineered the trade in 2018 that brought Leonard to the Raptors without the player agreeing to an extension, and the result was a championship followed by Leonard bolting to the Clippers.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Now, Cady is a former restaurateur and womanizer who became a tabloid sensation after his pregnant wife disappeared; his defense attorney, the young, pregnant, alcoholic Anna, seemingly guided him toward a plea deal engineered by Tom.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
This episode of Galaxy Brain was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
It was engineered by Jimmy Keeley with help from Cena Loffredo.
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James Sneed,
NPR,
26 June 2026
The Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is a specialized work tablet engineered to thrive in demanding environments where standard tech often fails.
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Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Adjective
Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
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Farshid Vahedifard,
The Conversation,
29 Dec. 2025
Verb
Lagree’s Megaformer, introduced in the early 2000s, uses two sliding platforms and is engineered for higher-intensity work that builds muscular endurance.
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Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 June 2026
Ys was co-produced by orchestral pop trailblazer Van Dyke Parks and engineered by punk icon Steve Albini, the only time those two prolific legends worked on the same album.
—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
29 June 2026
Saab says the submarine is engineered to operate quietly while supporting intelligence gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance, and naval combat missions.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 June 2026
Ujiri engineered the trade in 2018 that brought Leonard to the Raptors without the player agreeing to an extension, and the result was a championship followed by Leonard bolting to the Clippers.
—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
Now, Cady is a former restaurateur and womanizer who became a tabloid sensation after his pregnant wife disappeared; his defense attorney, the young, pregnant, alcoholic Anna, seemingly guided him toward a plea deal engineered by Tom.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
This episode of Galaxy Brain was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal.
—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
It was engineered by Jimmy Keeley with help from Cena Loffredo.
—
James Sneed,
NPR,
26 June 2026
The Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is a specialized work tablet engineered to thrive in demanding environments where standard tech often fails.
—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
Adjective
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What emerged was a startling portrait of manipulated devotion that culminated in Jeffs' 2006 arrest by the FBI.
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Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.
Verb
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As officials negotiated over how to permanently end the war in Iran, a separate plan emerged to break the shipping bottleneck through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Some, like Santa Clarita, have come to the table and already negotiated a settlement.
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.
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The order arrived as a white, non-designer T-shirt, size 2XL.
Verb
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The Live Nation website arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
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As visitors like Fulkerson settled into folding chairs arranged along the same grassy knoll where John Brown and his followers fought their way into the red-brick armory, Kerwin rose, stepped to the microphone and looked out at the crowd gathered before her.
Adjective
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Its role is to expose wrongdoing, illuminate facts, and draw the world’s attention to crimes committed in the name of false causes and manufactured justifications.
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Through this, researchers are mimicking natural structures, such as bird nests and bone minerals, to create ultra-strong manufactured materials.
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The fair's conferences were held at the Art Institute, and on the current site of La Rabida Hospital was a recreation of the La Rabida convent in Spain, where Columbus plotted his voyages.
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It was plotted, police said, because Arnold suspected that two of the three men were responsible for stealing his property.
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.
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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.
Adjective
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So is the neighbor who was pressured by police to corroborate a concocted story.
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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