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engines

noun

plural of engine

as in machines

a device that changes energy into mechanical motion a car with a 200-horsepower engine

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Recent Examples of engines The aviation industry can’t hire fast enough Airplane engines are in short supply. — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 Instead of massive gasoline engines, today’s Hummer pickup and SUV use gargantuan battery packs and electric motors. — Matt Degen, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The site also manufactures engines for helicopters, business jets and general aviation aircraft — specifically those from the PT6, PW200, PW500/600 and PW800 families. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026 Starship is a two-part launch system that includes the Super Heavy rocket booster and the upper Starship spacecraft, a 171-foot-tall vehicle packed with six rocket engines of its own. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026 This power plant is Mercedes-AMG’s new-generation M177 EVO, enhanced and enlivened by a flat-plane crankshaft, a feature normally associated with shrieking supercar engines. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026 Together, these airports are among the most important economic engines in our borough, supporting tens of thousands of jobs and generating economic activity for countless Queens businesses. — Tom Grech, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 The rocket used old Soviet engines built during the era when Apollo astronauts were landing on the Moon. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026

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Combining two reactor designs The research will focus on combining tokamaks and stellarators, two different types of machines designed to harness nuclear fusion for clean energy.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
True, Ishiguro’s 2021 sci-fi novel was prescient in anticipating a loneliness epidemic that would put us under the thrall of machines programmed to approximate human conversation.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

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Multiple redundant cables, motors, power supplies and computer control systems all keep the buildings perfectly stable in even hurricane-force winds.

— Andrew Ginter, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, the first stage can handle different solid rocket motors for pre-selected range, speed, and performance profiles, as well as different booster types and other modular components.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

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