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manufacture

[man-yuh-fak-cher, man-uh-] / ˌmæn jəˈfæk tʃər, ˌmæn ə- /




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Carrier also envisions using the new plant to manufacture components for its chillers, such as compressors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Although viruses depend entirely on the cells they infect to supply energy and manufacture proteins, producing excessive amounts of viral RNA can damage the very machinery they need to reproduce.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Geese were always an odd band to pin to anxieties about fabricated culture — if a label had resources and abilities to manufacture stars, why not do it for a 100x-hyperscaling pop act instead?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“When China figures out how to manufacture a product, their ability to scale is often greater than the rest of the world combined,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

In 1943, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal of the Army Chemical Corps, located near Denver, began to manufacture war materials.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The company manufactures semiconductors for external customers and its new processing node has been a big success.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

East Longmeadow manufactures games for roughly two dozen customers, mostly in batches of 5,000 to 20,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Airbus designs and manufactures wings for all its commercial aircraft at its Broughton site in North Wales.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

What got far less attention was the story about the owner of an Ohio factory that manufactures parts for cars and trucks, who told the New York Times about his Haitian workers.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Outside peoples already concede our material greatness and that we are well nigh supreme in manufactures and commerce,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Nowadays, the paper too is manufactured in Huixcolotla, which prides itself on controlling the entire process.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Pharmacies received the green light to create the compounded drug when a GLP-1 shortage began in 2022 — with the stipulation that the drugs could be manufactured only during a shortage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Because synthetic vanillin can be produced in large quantities, researchers believe it could be easier to incorporate into commercially manufactured medical products than some more expensive or difficult-to-source compounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Fans have been warned against buying fakes, with police saying, external they can be "manufactured without regard for safety standards or workers' rights" and Trading Standards warning that "counterfeiters have no morals and no standards".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

In addition to staying ahead of the curve with its products, Lumentum is undergoing a major effort to use AI inside the company—from inspecting its manufacturing lines to analyzing its supply chain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In industrial settings, inexpensive spectrometers could be installed throughout manufacturing facilities to continuously check material composition and product quality.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Statistics Canada also estimated manufacturing sales inched higher last month, with the value of shipments up 0.1% from a month earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

While it doesn’t offer insurance, all jewelry does come with a warranty that covers “imperfections that are the result of defects in the manufacturing process.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

It took a German organ builder and friend of J. S. Bach, Gottfried Silbermann, to see the piano’s potential and - with help and advice from Bach - to begin manufacturing pianos.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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