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