How to Use reengineer in a Sentence

reengineer

verb
  • But the rail authority needed part of the land for its rail route and was willing to pay him to reengineer it.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
  • The third pathway is when the environment is reengineered to be more resilient.
    — Richard Florida, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • Its research is focused on a type of gene therapy where doctors don't need to take a patient's cells out to reengineer them.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Quality of candidates no longer matters; the idea is to subtly reengineer the standards of choice.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For these cross-species transplants, also known as xenotransplants, the pig’s genome must be reengineered so that its organs will get along with the new host body.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Native people reengineered the forests around them, burning land to control underbrush and clear acreage for farming.
    — Drew Pendergrass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • Back in Chicago, our river literally runs backward, the whole thing reengineered to flush sewage away from the lake.
    — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • All seem apt parables for contemporary hubris about reengineering the climate.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • One Road – is nothing less than an attempt to reengineer the globe to bring everyone to China’s doorstep.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2018
  • The all-wheel-drive Macan Turbo at full whack is a feel-good happy pill reengineered as something that looks like a compact crossover.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2020
  • That’s prompted dreams of reengineering polymerases to write new DNA.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2018
  • Which is why researchers like Kappagantula are trying to reengineer the metal.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 14 July 2022
  • To enhance its long-range performance, Sierra has reengineered the GameKing by adding a hollow point and a resin tip.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Even large and profitable companies are needing to reengineer their businesses to battle inflation.
    — Dan Mallin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Inside, however, the gun is all-new, reengineered with a CNCed receiver and sturdy coil springs.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Jan. 2019
  • By scaling down strategically, the focus is to reengineer these structures to cope with current demand in a sustainable manner.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Moore should take that as a mandate to reengineer this offense around a quarterback who could be a top NFL Draft pick two years from now.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The investor has been arguing for a year that Barclays should reengineer its strategy and shrink the unit, which remains a drag on the company’s returns.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • And planners kept trying to harness the volatile energy of the corporate world to reengineer the city, with dramatic results and uneven success.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • This year, new general manager Perry Minasian didn’t reengineer the entire team.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The pandemic has offered a vivid of example of how systemic risk — one of the four shocks reshaping the future of work — forces leaders to reengineer their businesses.
    — Forrester, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • Some companies can reengineer the workplace to accommodate aging workers.
    — Jonathan Woetzel, Foreign Affairs, 4 May 2015
  • Jobs fully trusted Tim Cook to reengineer Apple’s global production process and supply chain.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Companies and labs like Kaplan’s and Lewis’ picked a lane early on—to either invent a supply of spider silk or reengineer the less-tough silkworm stuff.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 28 June 2021
  • These are important moments to sharpen our focus, reengineer our cost base, and direct our talent and capital to our highest priorities.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The tragedy has prompted locals to consider how to radically reengineer travel in ways that benefit the island beyond its economy.
    — John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
  • In contrast, an autonomous understanding system could help reengineer the warehouse design to further increase performance in the same space.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Reich’s efforts to reengineer the population were variegated.
    — Edith Sheffer, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Jackson watched as other festivals in Toronto and New York went (mostly) online and tried to reengineer what Sundance would look like in a pandemic.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 31 Dec. 2020

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