build
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Rather than racing to build a humanoid capable of doing everything from day one, Agile Robots has spent years embedding its industrial robots inside factories to solve problems for their clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
We didn’t need to “change” the Constitution, I argued; rather, we needed to build, à la Shelby, more “knowledge,” better understanding, inclusion.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We have a plan to build him up slowly, methodically,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The plan to build a residential tower on top of a local grocery store has morphed into a symbol of a generational divide over the city’s acute housing crisis and the future of San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“They like to build their nests on living things: on the heads of the warrior boars, or in the hair of people.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Sierra, which builds customer-service AI agents, is largely credited for pioneering the outcome-based pricing model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Here’s another shopping tip: “I think people should be looking for something that meets them where they are, builds on their capability, and the capability is broadly transferable,” Korn Ferry’s Lloyd said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"This builds on joint work that has stopped over 44,000 attempted crossings since the election."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The findings provide early evidence that communication between neural circuits helps determine whether a worker bee nurses the queen, builds or guards the hive, or searches for food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
It is raining when we leave the capital, a drizzle that builds to a steady downpour by the time we hit Villa Altagracia.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly."
From Time Magazine Archive
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His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We have builded our Camp anew, & as it saith in Genesis, “/ dwell in the Tents of Shem.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Investors might be better paid to take the risk that at least the stuff gets built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
They envision adding plants that can handle a soaking to the bioswales they built in both the front and back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We should approach data centers the same way: embracing their benefits while ensuring they’re built responsibly,” Christian said in a statement.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
While Heller was built on phony history, it reflected a genuine, hard-fought shift in public understanding.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
So they stayed on, married their sweethearts, and built homes next to each other, overlooking the river.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Conversions are continuing to drive room growth, as the hotel chain favors acquiring existing hotels rather than building new ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"It's actually about making communities more resilient through regulations, building spaces, education, and giving them the basic tools to save themselves when there is a big event."
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Many lenders are offering bigger loans compared with your income, with niche lenders and building societies at the highest end.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Anticipation for the movie was building for months, as robust pre-sales indicated high interest in Spidey’s return to the big screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
I’ve been at Ross Academy for over a year now, and the school building still blows me away.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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