erecting

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The construction site is erecting a shiny new mall while modern buildings and related respiratory illnesses are spiking up across the city.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

The plans include erecting tall pylons and and building large sub-stations.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

They’re erecting nets over roads or attaching metal cages to vehiclesto imperfectly shield them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

Established by Congress over a century ago, the commission would have reviewed plans for the elaborate ballroom Trump is erecting at the White House, as well as another project — his proposed triumphal arch.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025

Discovery started as a local concept, symbolized at first by the erecting of new ‘pillars of Hercules’ by Portuguese explorers advancing along the coasts of Africa.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton