build
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First, we travel to Maysville, Ky., where two self-described “country hicks” turned down a life-changing $26 million offer from a company that wants to build an AI data center on their farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Labour has set a target to build 1.5 million homes by 2029.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The EIA showed a surprise — and major — build in U.S. commercial inventories of oil, thanks to fewer crude exports and a jump in imports, mostly from Venezuela.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Niman said he and Schell also wanted to preserve the land from developers and “wealthy people from the Central Valley,” who were moving to the area to build second homes, golf courses and four-lane highways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
I’m still groggy, but a rage is starting to build in me.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
LeBron James, who led the team to its latest title in 2020, left over the offseason to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers, while Los Angeles builds its future around Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Firefly Aerospace is preparing Blue Ghost Mission 2, which builds on the company's first successful Moon landing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The label is the latest feature from the streaming platform that builds on transparency between the artist and their listeners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
As heat builds throughout the week, overnight temperatures will stay relatively high bringing some uncomfortable nights for sleeping.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Vu Lee asks what if Father escaped to France but can’t remember his own history, so he builds a new family and is happy?
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
“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
It is prophesied that the sound of the hammer will not cease for five years in Washington, at the end of which time the house will be builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
From Time Magazine Archive
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, he was not lying; his own triumph had outrun him; he had builded even better in evil than even he could have hoped.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
According to official data, external, it has so far built 392,000 homes in England since coming into power in July 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“We are proud of the business that we have built and the value we have created for our clients, investors and shareholders.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The food system in the U.S. — largely built around speed and convenience — doesn’t exactly align with home-cooked meals leisurely shared with those you love.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Spent nuclear fuel is stored in lead and stainless steel casks and bolted into concrete at a specially built pad at Diablo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
He built a hut of driftwood logs and good strong branches, with a palm-thatched roof and a hard dirt floor.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
As a lot of smoke was coming from the building, people living nearby were being advised to keep their windows and doors shut.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I wanted to be building in that environment,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
John Adams became the first president to live in the still-unfinished building when he moved in the following year.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rather than focusing only on building strength, the researchers say exercise programs should also emphasize balance and coordination while paying attention to how different muscles work together during each step.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The street side of the lot was fronted by a long clapboard building that stretched on and on.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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