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[dih-zahyn] / dɪˈzaɪn /








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She worked alongside other students to design enrichment activities for a tiger, for example, before presenting their ideas to members of the public - something she said she would previously have found intimidating.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Officials have to design the project, get the necessary approvals and permits and coordinate with other departments before work can begin.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

As a Shanghai official in the early 2010s, he helped design a pilot program allowing foreign private-equity firms to raise yuan-denominated funds in the city—an early and closely watched experiment in internationalizing China’s currency.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Rather than forcing Swedish minerals to fit existing manufacturing formulas, the researchers want to design magnets whose chemical composition closely matches the materials naturally present in local deposits.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

I drew out a design for an A-frame signboard that the boys and I could build with crating scraps and place in front of the store.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Dozens of companies are pursuing new designs for commercial small modular reactors, or SMRs, the kind of reactor that would be used at the port.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency that advises on design and aesthetics, recommended designs for a circulating $1 coin featuring Trump’s head.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

In 2019, the government announced plans to turn it into a police station, and initiated a EU-wide competition for architects to submit designs.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

This approach greatly expanded the flexibility of photonic resonator circuits that had previously been limited by fixed designs.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Mr. Abbas always shows the red field designs from Kashan, which look like a field of wild flowers.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Burnham, 56, announced three feel-good measures designed to offer Britons and businesses some early modest help with high living costs, which he has made the focus of his nascent administration.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Many schools are housed in beautiful old palazzi - they were never designed with modern physical education in mind.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

This comment seems designed to set the blame for any tightening on other Fed members.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

In response, Jefferson started a newspaper contest to elicit plans for what became the Capitol, designed by Dr. William Thornton, the amateur architect who won the contest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Thirty-year loans were thus designed to be repaid in a few years.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The company has never given up its core advantage in computing: designing its own processors.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

“We never really had the time to focus on designing the house properly before. We just kept having kids and working,” he explained.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

The team accomplished this by designing a control Hamiltonian, a carefully planned sequence of fields and pulses that reproduces the effects of quantum measurements.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

Supermarkets are already designing fridges for 35C, even 38C, he said.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

He and John Root had considered designing the whole exposition themselves, and indeed their peers jealously expected they would do so.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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