build
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The back story: When Covid sent Yale students home in 2020, Chime and his co-founders decided to skip remote learning and build their company full time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Monahan described the soldiers as "doing an utterly phenomenal job digging trenches and also helping us build fire breaks".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The EIA showed a surprise — and major — build in U.S. commercial inventories of oil, thanks to fewer crude exports and a jump in imports, mostly from Venezuela.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Niman said he and Schell also wanted to preserve the land from developers and “wealthy people from the Central Valley,” who were moving to the area to build second homes, golf courses and four-lane highways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Liam could build a shed for himself if he got there, and it would be his own.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
LeBron James, who led the team to its latest title in 2020, left over the offseason to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers, while Los Angeles builds its future around Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The label is the latest feature from the streaming platform that builds on transparency between the artist and their listeners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Scottish MP Graeme Downie said the UK should "manage the decline of the North Sea in a way that protects workers, supports communities and builds the industries that will power Britain's future".
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
But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
“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
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
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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
She was the judge in the high-profile Elon Musk v Sam Altman trial and has built a reputation from the bench over the course of nearly 20 years for being incisive and direct.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He stores his 17 cars in a barn that he and his father built near his home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The food system in the U.S. — largely built around speed and convenience — doesn’t exactly align with home-cooked meals leisurely shared with those you love.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Spent nuclear fuel is stored in lead and stainless steel casks and bolted into concrete at a specially built pad at Diablo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rowdy was built just right for good monkey biting and the monkeys had sure taken advantage of this.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Over 50 UK banks and building societies are signed up.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I wanted to be building in that environment,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
John Adams became the first president to live in the still-unfinished building when he moved in the following year.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rather than focusing only on building strength, the researchers say exercise programs should also emphasize balance and coordination while paying attention to how different muscles work together during each step.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
With the crop in, we work building a cabin.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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