concrete

All part of "a transaction that inflicted direct and concrete injury... to the detriment of Fifa as well as its 211 members", and was conducted under "a veil of secrecy".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

A few crumbling concrete blocks in an overgrown field are all that remains visible of what was once a sprawling Nazi forced labour complex around the Austrian town of Leobersdorf.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Whether new degrees in AI or digital humanities pay off, or result in concrete careers, is unsettled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Before that, she worked for a concrete company that helped build some structures for the rail project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Dad lowered the carrier onto the concrete floor next to the silver table looming in the center of the room.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Piles of bricks, slabs of concretes and mounds of rubble, and on the wall that remains standing, a bright green door which now leads to nothing.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022

The Swiss company said it also wants to expand its solutions and products business, which makes pre-cast concretes, roofing products, asphalt and dry mortars to 30% of its revenue.

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2021

The polymer concretes seem to be doing alright, too, so we can just … make more of those.

From Nature ● Jul. 7, 2020

They paint their pictures with essential oils, resinoids, concretes and absolutes, the building blocks of fragrance and flavor.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019

Then Ella dragged Brigit to the Conjure Creole Creamery, where attendants pulled levers making decadent concretes and malted mischief milkshakes full of pralines and petit fours and pieces of pecan pie.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Inside the concreted blocks was an extraordinary cache of iron helmets.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

They were joined by a team of ground radar experts who scanned the heavily concreted property, assisting the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s with serving a search warrant at the home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

If all six proposed facilities are approved, more than 200 acres of farmland will be turned over to concreted compounds within a three-kilometre radius of their village.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024

Several sewage drains have been concreted over in Karachi to make way for parking lots.

From Reuters ● Dec. 18, 2021

The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

"We're working with a new contractor for some concreting in the yard and building works," Alan said, adding that he'd received an email asking him to pay so the contractor could buy materials.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024

He added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be "concreting over their oil-wells".

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022

According to him, construction workers used to be skilled in multiple aspects of the trade, but now the applicants he sees are specialized in specific categories, like framing, concreting or finishing, but not all three.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2017

Like the fact that you see Boo Radley's father concreting in the hole in the tree where Boo had been leaving gifts for the children.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013

The side forms were then placed and braced apart by the struts and concreting continued to the skewback plane indicated in Fig.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette