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  • engineer A person who designs or builds things. The engineer created a car for his goldfish.
  • motion-sensing Technology that detects movement. The car used motion-sensing to follow Blub's swimming.
  • creative Using imagination to make something new. The engineer had a creative idea to build a car for a fish.
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