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scaffolding

noun as in stage

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Denizens of Washington are conditioned to this whiplash by the time the Inauguration scaffolding starts to go up on Capitol Hill.

From Time

Rioters swarmed, battering the officers with metal pipes peeled from scaffolding and a pole with an American flag attached, police said.

They saw a crowd starting to move toward the Capitol, she said, and soon she could see some of them climbing on the scaffolding.

The mob knocked down barricades and used the scaffolding erected for the inauguration ceremony to scale the walls and swarm through windows and doors.

She calculated the risk of climbing two levels up a center scaffolding to get a view of the scene.

From Fortune

Today the church is wrapped in scaffolding and metal ribbons are holding its façade in place until someone pays to repair it.

“As you all know, we had a scaffolding incident here at One World Trade Center,” he now said.

Davis requires a sound scaffolding of fact and proof for his enthusiasms.

Even when a skeleton displays no evidence of disability, it might have been the scaffolding for an unhealthy body.

She was walking down the scaffolding, with all the lights in front of her.

And the sawn planks come from Russia and the Baltic, and the larches for scaffolding from the Merionethshire valleys.

So they set to work and made a tower of scaffolding with ropes, with timbers, with spars saved from their ships.

For the rest, figures are but the scaffolding, the method, and do not exist in Nature.

He stopped, leaning against scaffolding as he saw a familiar figure turn toward him.

The Priory is all scaffolding and paint; and we are still in a nightmare of uncertainty about our boys.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scaffolding, such as: scaffold, arena, boards, dais, frame, and platform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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