Reverse-engineer definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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In this account, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld tasked the Bush Justice Department to reverse-engineer a rationale for doing whatever the White House asked the CIA to do to terrorist suspects, and his supine clerks obligingly generated a pre-emptive update of the

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It would take me hours just to reverse-engineer the site enough so I could modify files on it without having some unkown consequence happen. — AskApache Web Fire
Which is obviously a closely guarded business secret, but you can try different things to reverse-engineer it.
With our recommendation engine (in our "Gift Lists" system) we recognized the issues involved and decided not to try and reverse-engineer the human psyche. — doggdot.us
Given the apparently simple nature of the new controller, it's not yet known if vendors will be able to reverse-engineer the control chip, or whether Apple will take legal action against vendors that do so. — Macworld
Given the relatively limited circuitry involved, it's not hard to imagine that one or more enterprising companies may try to reverse-engineer the chip and produce equipment capable of controlling the shuffle and other control-less equipment. — Top Tech News