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build

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






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As parts of the Sun rotate at different speeds, they twist the emerging magnetic field and build up energy.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

The goal is to build up the right level of confidence by 2030 to enable the launch of a program, which ideally means having flown by then.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Liverpool invested around $500 million dollars on talent in recent years to build upon the team’s success winning the Premier League title for the 2024-25 season.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

He was small in build and didn’t look much beyond primary school age, and it filled me with pity to see him doubled over, hacking like an old man.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The new technique builds on Professor Chapman's earlier "sunclock," a system that places the Sun's irregular cycles onto a standardized clock.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

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

“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 company makes deals with product suppliers looking for in-program exposure, supplies the on-air talent that does the pitching with the network’s hosts and builds the websites that handle the transactions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

A plan builds in the mind of this expert.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

“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

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

When I awoke this morning he hath builded me a Fire in the Grate.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Like Zach Cregger with “Weapons” or Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” Barker built on the run-and-gun inventiveness of the sketch-group internet scene to helm a culture-shifting horror hit on a minuscule budget.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

"I mean, we are 23 students and we built this within just one year. The technical industry should be able to do this way better and way faster," he said.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

We went sledding in the park, built a snowman in the garden, threw snowballs at one another on the way to and from school.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

It is a role in which she will play a key part in his drive to devolve power away from Westminster and deliver a major programme of council house building.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

“There’s some incredible artwork on that building, and we are paying respect to the graffiti artists” with a planned coffee table book, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

In 2022, Turkish drone maker Baykar announced it was building a factory in Ukraine that would be operating within two years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

It is still in operation today, in its own new building, with patients from many parts of Europe.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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