construct
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They include renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, work on public parks and plans to construct a gigantic arch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
And he goes on to, as the question suggests, accept and construct horrifying grifts, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
And then in 2017 Disney undertook its biggest ESPN-funded challenge yet, spending many billions to construct a streaming service to directly challenge Netflix—the company’s biggest strategic bet of the decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He had to construct a theoretical space which became a painted space.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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It is under that authority, and consistent with the long sweep of history, that the president constructs the ballroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Roan’s lipstick gone “awry” on her teeth brings a camp sensibility to both mock and celebrate feminine performance that resists traditional heteronormative constructs.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
The largest was unfinished and made from unplastered cement blocks with a tin roof, while two were just lean-to constructs of roofing sheets with nothing more, and the last an open, untidily thatched hut.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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The ships are being constructed in blocks which will be taken to Belfast by barge for final assembly.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Historical brain teasers: Do you know which pharaoh the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed for?
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Those lines were actually spoken nearly an hour apart, and the BBC has apologized for how the edit was constructed.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The term sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women, while gender refers to society’s constructed roles, expectations, behaviors, attitudes, and activities that it deems appropriate for men and women.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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When a builder is constructing a home, the taxes are based on the value of the land.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But modern front offices, armed with mountains of data, are increasingly comfortable constructing a roster without an established closer, instead relying on matchups to determine pitching assignments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Rather than passively consuming a finished narrative, audiences actively participate in constructing and navigating the environment itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Tom Homan has spent years constructing the persona of a man who never backs down.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I forget that you had a hand in constructing the fortifications on Bunker Hill.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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