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.
engineered
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past participleof engineer.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof engineer.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
engineernouna person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering.
Example Sentences
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JSerra quarterback Hayes Cloutier, who threw two touchdowns and rushed for three, engineered all three second-half conversions, two with his legs and one with his arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
These animals were genetically engineered so that Menin could be selectively removed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
But almost none of that technology currently exists at scale, and the committee says credible plans exist for just 1% of these engineered removals needed by the late 2030s.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
They’ve long been claiming that their tools, engineered as hyperfast pattern-recognition machines, are not just performing computational mathematics but are actually “self-aware” and “conscious.”
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
And the claypan, as it’s called, has to be carefully engineered so that it will drain properly and also keep the plants submerged at the optimum level.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
