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
They complain that artists are engineering sounds and lyrics for what might soar on TikTok.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Cars would be the bonanza market, but there are engineering problems to solve first—to make the cars cheap enough.
From O+F by John Moncure Wetterau
