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scaffold

[skaf-uhld, -ohld] / ˈskæf əld, -oʊld /


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Alexandra Friedman, a Seattle-based friendship and relationship coach, thinks it’s OK to use AI to scaffold an uncomfortable conversation but not to lean on it throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

I ask Winkworth's colleague Phil Williams if the scaffold tubes are too hot to handle.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Blueprint's artificial structures, which can be created in many different shapes, are built on a 3D-printed scaffold of a biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone, which supports a collagen structure.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

They discovered that the cytoplasm becomes stiffer during interphase, creating a supportive scaffold that stabilizes the actin band.

From Science Daily Feb. 28, 2026

Within a year, Dad designed a scaffold that made him the fastest bricklayer on the job.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Some of the work is physically risky and will require crews being lowered in uspended scaffolds known as swing stages used by window cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Such scaffolds can lead to faster, cheaper vaccine development, which otherwise can take many years and many millions of dollars.

From Salon May 20, 2026

"But especially in the psychedelic field, completely new scaffolds are incredibly rare. And this is the discovery of a brand-new therapeutic scaffold."

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

For example, in the civilian context, when construction workers fall off scaffolds and can’t walk until receiving surgery and physical therapy, their employers have to provide them workers’ compensation.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

“It is queer to see the painters at work on ladders & scaffolds in this heavy rain,” Olmsted wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 28, 2023

Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

“Can you be the social agent of that? Or are they scaffolded by other humans?”

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Older APOE2 knock-in mice had smaller nucleoli, higher levels of the nuclear scaffolding protein Lamin A/C, and better-preserved heterochromatin in the hippocampus than mice carrying APOE3 or APOE4.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

The event was advertised almost exclusively offline, with flyers wheatpasted to construction scaffolding and guidebooks available at independent bookstores.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

They are the hidden scaffolding of social life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

He has also hinted at changes to the North Portico's 200-year-old columns -- which are in the Ionic style and not his preferred, more ornate Corinthian style -- and have recently been covered by scaffolding.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

A mason with trowel and bucket awaits the king, up on the scaffolding; all the other workmen descend by rope ladders, like a swarm of fleas.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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