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construct

[kuhn-struhkt, kon-struhkt] / kənˈstrʌkt, ˈkɒn strʌkt /


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This year the company sought permission from the Garden Grove planning commission to construct a new employee break room on the site.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

The construct of volatility derivatives remains positive for stocks.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

And there’s a solid sense of how to construct an eight-part series about the unbelievably outlandish: Make the outlandish secondary.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Walsh treats well-documented, widely accessible historical facts as if they were buried state secrets, weaponizing the baseline historical illiteracy of his audience to construct a narrative of deception.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

She learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain”; to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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