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build

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






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A key provision of the new accord would have American companies build an uranium enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia if a joint U.S.-Saudi study determines such a step would be warranted.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

To build these structural models, the team used a modified version of AlphaFold, the Nobel prize-winning protein structure prediction algorithm.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

The United States' frenzied rush to build out AI infrastructure has boosted exports of Mexican technology, complicating President Donald Trump's hand heading into trade negotiations.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

But the fissile material required to build nuclear weapons remains in the country, under the watch of U.S. satellite surveillance.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Throughout 1941, Father Monaghan watches warily as the Americans expand their military bases and build new ones.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

At this point, Mr. Dessner’s instantly identifiable studio techniques—stately pianos, dry and uninflected recordings captured up close, rushing builds when a song lurches toward a climax—have become shopworn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The approved buyer of the mothballed residential, hotel and retail project is a partnership led by Kali P. Chaudhuri, whose KPC Development Co. owns and builds commercial properties in California and India.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

“It’s holding back PC builds and smartphone builds. Cloud customers are paying premiums,” and presumably not to stash memory components in warehouses, he noted.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

The study builds on more than 20 years of research led by Cohen, who helped pioneer the discovery of peptides produced by mitochondria.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

It is raining when we leave the capital, a drizzle that builds to a steady downpour by the time we hit Villa Altagracia.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“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

Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.

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

Marshals Service and federal prosecutors say it was all built on a false identity.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Under the section initially built as the Port Talbot bypass - before the M4 was bolted on at either end - the main noise is the rushing of the nearby River Afan.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

The majority of AI jobs aren’t tied to where servers are built; in fact, these data centers create few long-term jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

As soon as there was a new engine, we built a new aircraft.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

I have built campfires in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and hunted wild turkey in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Over time, material such as pollen, sand, plant remains, and organic matter settles at the bottom of a lake, building a layered record of past environmental conditions.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

The government says the unit, expected to be initially set up in a building currently housing intelligence service GCHQ, will be given control of aspects of local economic growth and devolution strategy.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Six months before every tour stop, someone from Shuck’s team visits to survey the theater building and meet with structural engineers to ensure the structural steel mount can support its weight and dynamic force.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The company is building a backlog of future business, vying for military and defense contracts, CEO Mary Barra says on a call with analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

But when we get out of the car and are guided inside a building, I immediately know where we are.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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