built
Example Sentences
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Nuclear control had been built over decades around a Moscow-Washington axis, but China's growing power and rapid technological advances have shifted the international playing field, which is simultaneously increasingly strained.
From Barron's
Beijing’s third and newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is the first to be fully designed and built in China, and features electromagnetic catapults for launching aircraft.
Many British railways are built on clay soil that shrinks in the summer as vegetation sucks out water, and expands in the winter.
From BBC
These outcomes should surprise no one who understands how industrial capacity is built.
That fort was built around 85 CE and abandoned by 91/92 CE.
From Science Daily
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