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  • present participle of build.
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building

[bil-ding] / ˈbɪl dɪŋ /


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That same day, Alfozan left a bag unattended in a different part of the building.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The shift toward “advanced packaging” in the chip world—a term referring to a variety of strategies for knitting together pieces of silicon into one big chip—has long been building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Shares of Micron Technology were falling in morning action Tuesday and set to fall for the fourth session in a row as momentum was building for rivals in China.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

By combining the two, the researchers constructed a simple loop that served as a basic building block of a lattice gauge theory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Their cabins have no running water, so they trek barefoot to the main building to fetch their own.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The historic campus, with its 1800-era buildings that survived the Civil War and its curving brick-paved paths, was the nexus for my inquiry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"This can't just be a project that's about replacing one set of buildings with the other. It really is about a transformational vision of our city's pretrial justice system."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Inspectors red-tagged nine buildings along Seaside Walk, the Long Beach Post reported, with one building yellow-tagged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Pensacola resident Brandin Ruth told the BBC that they have been turning the gas off to the buildings, icing down product and trying to get team members home.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Lahars of mud and debris swept down the South Fork and North Fork of the Toutle River with reports of a twelve-foot wall of water, mud, logs, and buildings being pushed downstream.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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