build
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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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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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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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
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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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