How to Use engineering in a Sentence

engineering

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  • This control panel is a good example of smart engineering.
  • And there were a lot of rules out there that didn't make engineering sense to me.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 25 June 2023
  • The Charger and 300 are large sedans that share most of their engineering.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The key is to use them for all roles, not just engineering openings.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • To say the least, this would be an advanced feat of engineering.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The idea of planet-scale engineering didn't gain much traction over the next two decades.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The college of engineering is the largest school at Oregon State.
    — oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Mercedes weighs in at a chart-topping 3954 pounds, a fact that even the most astute engineering can't hide.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The current planning and engineering phase of the project is backed by $8.4 million of state funding.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Modern plumbing joined to good civic engineering still ranks right at the top.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Hyundai and Kia models share much of their engineering, CNN said.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The design and engineering work sets the stage for construction, though the timetable and funding for that have not yet been announced.
    — Lawrence Specker | , al, 13 Mar. 2023
  • And yet all too often people in the U.K. overlook the power of engineering.
    — John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The engineering of this immense beast is cutting edge as well.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Our plan is to build these spaces, pay for maintenance and engineering, and let the centers give out the time slots for people to use them.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • On took the standard raglan sleeve hoodie template and added in their crafty Swiss engineering.
    — Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Moyer took the day shift, and Jack, who kept his engineering job in Fullerton, came in at night, sleeping on his workbench, a box for a pillow.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Behind the highest dam lies a huge pond, a reservoir kept in place by this feat of natural engineering.
    — Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And that pure math was helpful to parts of applied math, and applied math is useful to engineering, science.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The positions are expected to be in engineering and pay over $50 an hour.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Made to create in both 2D and 3D, these interlocking blocks combine engineering and art for a whole lot of fun.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 26 Sep. 2023
  • What followed was a three-day saga of aquatic engineering.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The original tram that John installed was already a feat of lift engineering.
    — Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Many of them hail from a business and engineering, rather than a military, background.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As is so often the case, the solution is as much a matter of politics as engineering.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Prompt engineering, how people talk to the AI, and having humans in the loop, adds a bit of human wisdom to handle the technology.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Because in engineering, there is only right or wrong, there is only a one or a zero, and there are no gray areas in between.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
  • But from an engineering perspective, not having a root cause for why five of the thrusters failed on the flight to the ISS means that risk remains for more thrusters to malfunction during the return flight.
    — Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Other fabrics provide softness and ease achieved from Cone’s internal yarn engineering, which the mill’s 3-D innovation team designed to create a soft hand without the use of alternative fibers.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Hunters were more inclined to read pages that covered science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
    — New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024

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