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erection

[ih-rek-shuhn] / ɪˈrɛk ʃən /










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The survivors carved their unspeakable grief into the landscape with the erection of thousands of war memorials.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Dr. Sarah Furness, the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, commissioned the statue's erection after the queen's death.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

The erection of several wind turbines is viewed by the Golan villagers as an encroachment.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023

The erection of the Charlevoix church had been an event of great excitement.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

A few decades earlier, Chicago homebuilders began using a technique called “balloon-frame construction,” replacing cumbersome erections of beams and joists with rapidly built skeletons of precut lumber and nails.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2018

For instance, some men become impotent after surgery for prostate or rectal cancer because the nerves that regulate erections, which run through the rectum and prostate into the centre of the penis, can get damaged.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2014

That is convincing evidence that the birds' erections are controlled by the lymph system, the researchers say.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2011

In the men who were potent before treatment, 52 percent reported problems with erections two years after treatment.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2011

Architects of to-day do not build with the same simplicity and grace that they did of old, and these little out-of-the-way gems of architecture are far more satisfying than are similar erections of to-day.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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