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build

[bild] / bɪld /
NOUN
physical structure, form
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK






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“Almost all of the internet marketplaces either have a very large advertising business or plan to build one over time,” said Josh Beck, a tech analyst at Raymond James.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

A quick solution to addressing this gap would have been to build battery storage systems at renewable pooling stations to integrate the power into the grid.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Investors had previously been concerned with Meta’s abilities to build a differentiated AI product, Bank of America’s Justin Post believes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

MS NOW’s live event asks whether journalism can build something more durable than a click or a fleeting social-media interaction.

From Salon Sep. 22, 2026

Between the bases and the institute, we thought the area would help us build our life and experience the American dream.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

About 68% of new builds also came with HOA fees, compared with 39% of existing homes, Realtor.com noted.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

The Swiss logistics company said that the long-term partnership builds on an existing relationship and is designed to support future business opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

Huang said that such predictions are "not grounded in science", adding that it is in Nvidia's best interest to ensure the industry builds its products responsibly.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

“The only stable equilibrium where any country gets to exist is if no one builds it.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Next he builds a false back into the wardrobe, installing it on a sliding track so it can be opened from either side.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“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

His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The property, which was built in 1938, was snapped up by the couple in 2005 for $2.3 million, and in the decades since, has been “renovated to perfection.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

"The earliest bodies in the outer Solar System were built from 83% to 92% chondrules, with very little of the icy, volatile-rich dust that dominates later-forming objects."

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

Between 1939 and 1945, the Dagenham plant built 360,000 vehicles for the Allied war effort.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

One site, Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, was home to a U.S. air base built during World War II and abandoned in the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

We built up the fire and, naturally starved, thought we’d try one piece each of Tansy’s fried chicken.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

She is said to have paid $4.9 million for the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom aerie in the new building.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

"These ubiquitous little beads of rock are the basic building blocks from which the planets themselves were eventually assembled," Grewal said.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

Broda said he enjoyed building teams at OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Higher global borrowing costs have hit the UK government in the run-up to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first Budget next month, with speculation building over potential tax and spending policies.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

And then I was standing in a line at a customs shed and the sign on the little station building said NIEUWERSCHANS.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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