build
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The race to build data centres that power artificial intelligence has fuelled a global memory chip shortage while causing business to boom for the companies that produce them.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Like many South Asian families then, she followed relatives who had moved first to build a new life.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Providing Saudi Arabia a pathway to build the capacity the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
An ancestor first lost its paired eyes after becoming largely inactive, retained a simple central eye, and later used parts of that structure to build a new and more advanced visual system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Even if you wanted to build a house back there, how would you get to it in the winter?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"This builds on joint work that has stopped over 44,000 attempted crossings since the election."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Diaz, who works for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service in El Paso, Texas, builds apps in his spare time—and loves how Codex and ChatGPT have bolstered his coding ability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rolland further noted that PC builds in the second half of the year will likely “be significantly weaker” compared to previous years due to high memory costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Gravity from Entropy builds on this broader relationship.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
A bigger gust moves the vast limbs, and the sound builds slowly until the wind commands the branches to dance and the leaves to titter.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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“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
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Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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So it’s no surprise that her one-bedroom apartment, in a Storybook-style fourplex built in 1922, is just as dramatic as she is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The lack of private-school oversight is built straight into the law in most of the states ProPublica studied.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
ElevenLabs -- a rising star in AI voice tech -- built "ElevenReader Voice Chat," which it says "turns any book into a two-way conversation."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ex-Ineos rider Tom Pidcock of Pinarello-Q36.5 won on Alpe d'Huez four years ago and returned to this race having achieved much with a new team built entirely around him.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“It looks like a house built on the back of a car.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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“Together, Naver, Nvidia and Brookfield are building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea’s startups and industries,” Huang said in a joint statement released by Naver on Saturday, Seoul time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The impact of that stance could be profound, way beyond some admirably shiny No 10 signs emblazoned all over one floor of a government building in Manchester.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
One woman, 22-year-old Kayla Carris, told the news outlet that she witnessed bystanders “just throwing stuff and running” to get inside a nearby building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Disney’s ten or so AI jobs showed the century-old studio building out its AI research and production muscle, while protecting its vault of beloved characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Outside this building a florid-faced officer formed us into a double column and marched us across a broad parade ground.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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