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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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The real estate tycoon appears increasingly obsessed by his construction projects at the White House, such as his new ballroom and helipad.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Struve also said he has picked up extra hours working in residential construction to make up for the year’s losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Utility-scale projects like Nevada’s Mosey Solar Project and the Purple Sage Energy Center bring a number of construction jobs and lease payments to rural communities that need both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A White House official, in a statement, said that “any assertion Washington D.C. construction projects had anything to do with a decision about El Salvador TPS are false.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The state also requires home hardening measures for the structure itself — from covering vents with a mesh to block embers from entering to using fire-resistant building materials — for all new constructions since 2008.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cappelleri also pointed out that despite their different constructions, the RSP ETF and the Dow often arrive at very similar results.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

"We now see that end of these monumental constructions coincides with the disappearance of the population that built them," Seersholm said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Man Ray also built ingenious collages, bas-relief constructions and elegant chess sets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train- car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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