build
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The divisions could share enterprise customers and build on Uber’s expertise in running marketplaces that match supply and demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
To overcome this limitation, the research team began by using quantum mechanics simulations to build a detailed database containing 152 chemical reactions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It is estimated it would cost £33bn to build.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
"If you only build data-centre capacity, you have not done much," Renda told AFP, calling for "political leadership" to help "identify the roadblocks, the obstacles and the enablers of this transformation".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
He’s coming to help build more coops today.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Heart disease builds silently for years before anything announces itself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The research builds on a technique known as organic electrosynthesis, which uses electrical energy to drive reactions that produce carbon-based chemical compounds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Lots of things have been announced and then canceled,” said Frosst, whose startup builds large language models and was valued at $6.8 billion last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Firmus builds and operates liquid-cooled data centres, or what it calls "AI factories", for clients including OpenAI and Meta.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
As the scene builds, the character played by Zach begins to backpedal and tries to explain.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly."
From Time Magazine Archive
His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I awoke this morning he hath builded me a Fire in the Grate.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The sprawling New York City duplex is located in the Novare building—formerly the Washington Square Methodist Church built in 1860, which was converted into an eight-unit condominium building in 2006.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
They have dated it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which is the Early Bronze Age, and is around the same time that the Great Pyramid was being built.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The company that built its name on car navigation systems recently topped $50 billion in market value.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Over the decades, it has built a reputation as a nimble contract manufacturer supported by a network of local industries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The town had built a platform in front of the Empire Café and draped it with flags and clusters of balloons.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
The kingdom’s Energy Ministry said a Saudi Aramco administrative building had been targeted leading to a limited fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Not building a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be a "huge missed opportunity" for the UK, the boss of the country's busiest airport has warned.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The sprawling New York City duplex is located in the Novare building—formerly the Washington Square Methodist Church built in 1860, which was converted into an eight-unit condominium building in 2006.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Gen Z’s focus on investing may therefore reflect a thoughtful rent-versus-buy decision while still building wealth for the future.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Some of them play with art supplies on their desks, and some are building structures from large, colorful blocks.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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