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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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The federal government tracks female participation in fields such as construction, and installation and repair, which includes jobs such as plumbers, carpenters and auto technicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Spending on computing equipment grew at a 67% rate, while spending on data center construction rose at a 127% rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He said 1,600 grievances logged, mainly from farmers requesting compensation for construction impacts on their crops, were resolved.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

They place its original construction at a time equivalent to the Bronze Age of the remaining western Mediterranean.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now it was like he wore an orange construction vest and carried those signaling flashlights they have at airports.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

For Vara, one of the stylistic issues that stood out about The Blue Fighter was that it had used sentence constructions using "X but Y", which she says is common in AI-generated texts.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The clouds were made in the Netherlands by a firm with a history of building steel ship hulls that now specializes in building complex steel constructions like the clouds using digital data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Novels from Valeria Luiselli and Katy Simpson Smith explore the connections between human relationships and the deliberate constructions of art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Cappelleri also pointed out that despite their different constructions, the RSP ETF and the Dow often arrive at very similar results.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Adams had expressed his feisty and passionate objections to the Jeffersonian constructions in one last catharsis.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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