build
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The divisions could share enterprise customers and build on Uber’s expertise in running marketplaces that match supply and demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
To overcome this limitation, the research team began by using quantum mechanics simulations to build a detailed database containing 152 chemical reactions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It is estimated it would cost £33bn to build.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
"If you only build data-centre capacity, you have not done much," Renda told AFP, calling for "political leadership" to help "identify the roadblocks, the obstacles and the enablers of this transformation".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Grandpa,” I asked, “are you going to help me build that pen?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Heart disease builds silently for years before anything announces itself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The investigation into vanillin builds on a broader effort at Flinders University to uncover useful medical properties in everyday food ingredients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Since then, "supply has not kept up", falling from around 260,000 new builds per year in the 1990s to 92,000 in 2025, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Appian itself isn’t strictly an AI company—the firm builds automation software that it sells to governments and enterprises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
And then one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
“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
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
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
Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
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 number of flights, currently capped at 480,000 a year, could go up to 720,000 - or nearly 2,000 a day on average, if a third runway is built.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Buyers who make 200% of the area’s median income or less would get up to 17% of a newly built home’s purchase price for a down payment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The company that built its name on car navigation systems recently topped $50 billion in market value.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The spikier “Tongue” is the other rocker, whose arrangement is a blend of syncopated drum breaks, squelching keyboards and drones built on feedback and distortion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
Atta Kanaan, a Palestinian resident of Mikhmas who lives 50 metres from the mosque, told AFP that he heard the sound of breaking glass shortly after midnight on Wednesday and immediately went to the building.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The kingdom’s Energy Ministry said a Saudi Aramco administrative building had been targeted leading to a limited fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Gen Z’s focus on investing may therefore reflect a thoughtful rent-versus-buy decision while still building wealth for the future.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
That same day, Alfozan left a bag unattended in a different part of the building.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
I take a step back and bump into the dog, who lurches away and disappears around the corner of the building.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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