build
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SpaceXAI promised that it would build a water reuse facility, but that project has been suspended.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Telecom companies assumed internet traffic would continue exploding, so they raced to build nationwide and transoceanic fiber networks before the customers and revenue were there.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
No company wanted to build a factory for a vaccine that might fail, so the government bought the doses in advance, before anyone knew whether they worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Arsenal have added Guimaraes and Tzolis as well as former Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier as back-up as they look to build on their success of last season.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Or they build pyramids and other things for our people.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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As heat builds throughout the week, overnight temperatures will stay relatively high bringing some uncomfortable nights for sleeping.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Rocket Lab said in conjunction with its second-quarter earnings report on Monday that the subsidiary builds on its recent acquisition of laser optical-communications provider Mynaric, which is based in Munich.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Current theories suggest that magnetic energy builds up as the Sun's magnetic field lines become twisted and coiled -- similar to the mechanical energy stored in a tightly coiled metal spring.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
And within days of each release, a global community of contributors builds the supporting software—the add-ons and utilities that make a model practical to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
By this means a precise balance is struck and the body never builds up a dangerous amount of acetylcholine.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
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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Hastily built to meet skyrocketing demand for computing power required by the global artificial intelligence race, these data centers are facing opposition across the United States.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Keegan Radomski's home, photographed here before the fire, was built by her grandmother in 1996.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Today’s AI infrastructure is being built because many of the customers are already waiting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
A week before, the forecasts turned, and I rerouted at the last minute to Montreal, to a small park built atop the ruins of Canada’s old Parliament building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
I staked the dogs out among the willows, built afire in the cooker, and fed them some thick soup.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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The girls -- who help others in their building with their homework -- have recently started going to classes outside in secret.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jemma Slingo, pensions and investment specialist at investment firm Fidelity International, says female investors "appear more likely to connect investing with real-life goals, from building emergency savings to looking after children."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
A week before, the forecasts turned, and I rerouted at the last minute to Montreal, to a small park built atop the ruins of Canada’s old Parliament building.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And that could stimulate more activity for companies involved in building and financing these projects, which will eventually trickle down to the broader economy, the Wells Fargo team said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead, he’d thrown himself into keeping the mushroom alive: fertilizing the surrounding trees so they’d offer more shade, digging tiny channels to direct rainwater, building a fence.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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