construct
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Most towns and local governments have rules on how big a lot must be for a builder to construct a single-family home on it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
To construct the atlas, researchers used mass spectrometry imaging, a technique that allows them to identify lipid molecules across thin sections of brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Developers want to construct a complex on a 101 acre site between Caernarfon and Y Felinheli, in Gwynedd, saying it could create more than 900 jobs during construction and 200 permanent roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
“He engages the white construct in a way that’s intelligent and everything, and then I see this commercial where he’s sitting there playing Aretha Franklin and he’s dancing a jig,” he said.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Galileo also wanted to construct an object which would fully immerse but not sink—an object with the same specific gravity as water.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Ghaderi says slidkrans is used particularly by healthcare professionals and in youth clinics but adds misinformation still exists emphasising the "need to change social constructs".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“It’s another medium for me to be able to articulate or dismantle those constructs around what makes sense together,” Kelela says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
"What we conclude is that these color qualities don't emerge from additional external constructs such as cultural or learned experiences but reflect the intrinsic properties of the color metric itself," Bujack said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Alone in his flat, Marco constructs tiny rooms from scraps of paper.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The plants, constructed in fortified bunkers and protected from drone attack by huge steel cages, are each capable of providing electricity and heat to several hundred of the city's high-rise apartment blocks.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Victorian was originally constructed in 1903 and was located at 1003 Ocean Ave. In 1977, the structure was relocated to 2640 Main St., along with the Heritage Museum’s “Roy Jones House.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Like Mississippian societies, Safety Harbor communities formed smaller chiefdoms and constructed flat-topped mounds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Mr. De los Santos’s dense text, which alternates between Spanish and English, is constructed to convey a lot of information, which often leaves Mr. Sosa’s pleasantly tonal score in a subordinate position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The brick buildings were constructed by prisoners themselves, using bricks made on site.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Goupil is constructing a similar security hub within the Louvre; the museum also added more crowd-control barriers and anti-ram devices around its exterior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
The arts center was founded by acclaimed Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who Florenz said has proposed constructing a permanent building for the coffins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rather than constructing the desired quantum states one small piece at a time, their method can perform a wide variety of operations much faster.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
I like constructing it, focusing, crafting the story, pulling together the memories.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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