engineer
noun
a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering.
are engineering
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present progressiveof engineer.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The transformations they are engineering will touch every human being; the decisions about how to engineer them will be made by very few.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
By creating burrows, foraminifera are engineering their entire ecosystem at a small-scale, allowing them to live deeper in the sediment where there is usually no oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
We are engineering researchers who study how machines manage heat and ways to effectively recover and reuse heat that is otherwise wasted.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2023
“We are confident that the remaining challenges are engineering in nature,” said Doug Campbell, chief executive of Solid Power, a battery maker backed by Ford Motor and BMW.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The pith of the whole business is in resolution number one, a resolution evidently framed with great care by the clever men who are engineering the present agitation in the Colony.
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
