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The roadblocks erected by the demonstrators across the country have disrupted supplies of fuel, food and medicine to La Paz, causing widespread shortages.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The only object that could better symbolize his time in office is the gold toilet erected as an art installation in D.C. by a mysterious collective called the Secret Handshake.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt erected millions of square feet of unsightly buildings on the National Mall to house an expanded federal bureaucracy during the world wars.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Maaden erected prefabricated warehouses for the fertilizer and rigged piping systems to move corrosive sulfuric acid, a key ingredient in phosphate production, into stainless-steel tanker trucks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The earliest preserved likenesses of Japan’s inhabitants are statues called baniwa, erected outside tombs around 1,500 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond