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The sites have been secured, with fencing erected and security and police present to prevent unauthorised access.

From BBC • May 29, 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

In each of the past five years, on average, only 200 miles of new transmission and distribution lines have been erected.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

These buttresses, erected on foundations next to the piers, would later be connected to the piers themselves by stone arches known as flying buttresses.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay