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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
Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2026
Matthew Stafford engineered the comeback with the winning touchdown pass, playing through a finger injury on his throwing hand.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
All season long, the Chicago Bears found ways to win close games, often engineered by quarterback Caleb Williams and his game-winning drives.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026
China’s Latin America strategy is engineered to be resilient against exactly this kind of episodic shock.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
Together, these innovations position the D19 not only as a high-performance SUV but also as a vehicle engineered for exceptional control and confidence in a variety of driving conditions.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
Though designed to work alongside humans, Atlas is engineered to operate in conditions that would exhaust most human workers.
—New Atlas, 10 Jan. 2026
The Raptors have engineered an offense to go fast and a defense to drain the clock.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Mountain Dew Baja Blast was engineered specifically for Taco Bell, launching in 2004 in partnership with PepsiCo, the parent company of Mountain Dew, according to reports.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
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Without much public debate or planning, these semi-engineered levees took on a critical and unintended role.
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The silky fibers are smartly engineered to absorb moisture and promote airflow, helping even the warmest sleepers stay comfortable all night long.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for engineered
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Mazzola, 43, also allegedly participated in an armed robbery to steal a manipulated shuffling machine.—
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Reyes defended the compensation, saying it was negotiated in good faith.—
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The Cheaters deal was negotiated by David Buoymaster on behalf of Radial Entertainment, with Matthew Helderman advising Goldstein Pictures Corporation.—
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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.—
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The goal is to move all the disks to the last pole with them arranged in the same order—but each disk may only be placed on a larger disk, never on a smaller one.—
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The following month, Acebedo-Garcia arranged the details for the first shipment — 293 kilos.—
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It is expected to explore the use of homes that are built using pre-manufactured sections instead of completely from scratch on site.—
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With a bit of creativity and planning, stock cabinets (also known as pre-manufactured cabinets) can serve as the foundation for personalized storage throughout a house—even in the basement.—
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Investigators determined that Melton and the younger Austin plotted to kill the 55-year-old victim and took the pair into custody six days later.—
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The majority of the revolts date back to well before Joseph Cinqué’s carefully plotted rebellion on the Amistad in 1839, the most famous of them and one of a small number that succeeded in securing freedom for those aboard.—
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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.—
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“Engineered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engineered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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