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scaffold

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


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Rather than functioning only as a catalyst that drives chemical reactions, NUDT5 can also act as a molecular scaffold that helps organize cellular metabolism.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

“You’ve got the native language as a scaffold for these young kids who are just beginning to acquire complex concepts, who are just beginning to understand the world around them,” Pompa said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

Mounting the scaffold, going right up into the sky, was something the imagination could hold on to.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

They chemically treated the material to produce scaffolds designed to remain stable and durable.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.

From Salon ● May 20, 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

But the foreman had identical scaffolds built for all the men on the job, and even suggested that Dad send the original to the Mechanics Institute, where it won a prize.

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

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

The building’s façade is heavily scaffolded and there is no roof on either of its two "wings".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

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

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

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

She added that the scaffolding meant she sometimes had to keep the lights on during the day, particularly in her son's bedroom which is obscured by a metal guard.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The scaffolding was erected at Archway Heights in 2020 as a precautionary measure after a piece of external cladding fell off, according to the housing association, People for Places.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Two people were seriously hurt Saturday by scaffolding blown away by storm Austen's winds during an autumn market at the town of Nastatten, German police said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

But it also made visible, for a moment, the financial scaffolding behind the plate.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Sierra glanced down from the scaffolding to where Manny the Domino King stood with his arms crossed over his chest.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older


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