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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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Although the fencing and construction vehicles vanished after the clashes, protests have swelled into nightly gatherings of thousands, despite assurances from Rama that the development has yet to be approved.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The jump in sales tax receipts in the Louisiana parish provides a new talking point in the debate over the AI construction boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The tech boss also owns stakes in smaller businesses, including The Boring Company, a tunnel construction firm, and Neuralink, which develops implantable brain-computer interfaces.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

That might be done by filling it with debris from hospital construction and graded earth or by leveling it with parking structures that would support an elevated ground floor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

His focus, indeed his obsession, was the interior architecture of his own remembrances, the construction of an Adams version of American history, a spacious room of his own within the American pantheon.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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