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.
were engineering
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past progressiveof engineer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In an interview with the MIT Technology Review last year, for example, Baric noted that just three or four labs were engineering bat coronaviruses before the pandemic, but that number has since multiplied.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 18, 2022
Leonardo then blurred the line between fantasy and reality when he went on to try to create real flying machines that were engineering marvels!
From National Geographic ● Nov. 4, 2017
I was working with colleagues who were engineering nanoparticles to make more effective catalysts.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2016
“This is a metal, unibody phone,” she said, adding that its antenna and camera were engineering feats in themselves.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2014
Six of them were engineering students, so they took an engineer’s approach to the problem.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
