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.
is engineering
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present progressiveof engineer (3rd person singular).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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“Raptor 3 is engineering art,” Musk said in a social-media post last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"The overall goal is engineering microbiomes toward what we think is something useful."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2024
“Even though I had three degrees in engineering, and had been teaching engineering and was registered as a professional engineer,” he told The Times in 2014, “if some neighbor asked me, ‘What is engineering?,’
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
It signals deep disaffection with the bleak future the regime is engineering for its subjects.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
This is engineering on a scale so far unprecedented on Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
