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.
had engineered
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past perfectof engineer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Two years later, in the same round, it looked like Allen had engineered a late game-tying drive of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
And some were now surmising that we had engineered a vote that would promote women and diminish men, in the process making some kind of statement, though they weren’t clear on exactly what that was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
He did not specify who the Kremlin believed had engineered the violence, or why.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2023
At the hearing Mr Clark dismissed his remarks as "innocent" and suggested Ms Farquharson had engineered her resignation to get money ahead of her marriage.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
