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Today’s word is engineer, spelled e-n-g-i-n-e-e-r.

engineer / ˌendʒəˈnɪə $ -ˈnɪr/ verb [transitive]

to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage

powerful enemies who engineered his downfall

I'm trying to engineer a meeting between them.

Before they could engineer an escape, they had to be sure that none of the guards were suspicious.

If the ninth circle of corporate hell houses the traitors who engineer corporate malfeasance, then corporate paradise surely includes those who find the courage to speak up when something feels wrong.

— Chris Lowney, Forbes, "Treachery, Trust, And Courage: How To Avoid Organizational Hell," 20 Apr. 2021

technical to design and plan the building of roads, bridges, machines, etc

The car is engineered to drive smoothly at high speeds.

The bridge is engineered to withstand an earthquake.

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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