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

When we were writing this, we were engineering that particular universe to be the one that pushes Michelle the furthest out of her comfort zone.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 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

That it would turn without crushing its bearings and rotate smoothly and true were engineering hopes supported only by calculations that reflected known qualities of iron and steel.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson