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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England were unaware, but Cronje had engineered a result.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Fifteen years earlier, Montezemolo was the young Ferrari team manager who had engineered the Prancing Horse’s last run of Formula One dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
He did not specify who the Kremlin believed had engineered the violence, or why.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2023
In 2016, when he played for the Detroit Lions, Stafford had engineered a comeback victory over the Colts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Goebbels—a particularly vicious anti-Semite who had engineered much of Hitler’s political rise—was now systematically dismantling what remained of a free press in Germany.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
