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[proj-ekt, -ikt, pruh-jekt] / ˈprɒdʒ ɛkt, -ɪkt, prəˈdʒɛkt /






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The project, which has an estimated price tag of £33bn, would see hundreds of homes demolished, rivers diverted and the M25 motorway rerouted through a tunnel between junctions 14 and 15.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It made one of the first AI-animated shorts, “Critterz,” using OpenAI’s software and planned to help make a movie based on it, but OpenAI pulled out of the project and canceled its video-making AI model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“It is helping Iran project power,” the Soufan Center, a New York-based security think tank, said of the Houthis’ gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The brothers declined to give any details about what their next joint project would be, but it is unlikely to be fantasy-based.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

How can you improve the image you project to the world?’

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The charity said in its early years it gave financial support to a number of larger community projects benefiting children but there was now an increasing focus on helping individual children and families.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

After initially concentrating on small-scale renovations, DIY SOS shifted focus to tackle a number of more ambitious projects throughout its multiple-decade run.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Home building, which relies on foreign-born workers, is suffering a labor shortage that is freezing projects and raising costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Some protested specific projects, notably the World Bank-backed Pak Mun dam, a hydropower project completed in 1994 that fishing communities say damaged their livelihoods.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Board games, trips, giant projects that give everyone splinters.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Scientist have projected for years that climate change would lead to fewer Santa Anas by the end of the century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Dell Technologies’ valuation is almost four times what it was a year ago, boosted by a projected 70% increase in revenue for its current fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The study in Nature said that projected rises in ocean temperatures and other pressures "primarily determined when and where, rather than if, conditions will become unviable for corals".

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

If you up your budget to $12,000 a month, for instance, Boldin still gives you a 77% chance of success, and you’d still be projected to have several million dollars at age 97.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The sphere grew a camera lens and projected a 3-D image of the Apennine Mountains above the console.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

In other words, investors are getting sick of projecting payoffs from investments in technology with uncertain, far-off returns — and they’re also tired of debating what that means in the here and now.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Becerra finally unlocked the inner cholo so many of us have been waiting to see, instead of the Chicano Ned Flanders he’s been projecting for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Quebec is among the hardest hit by the latest US tariffs, with experts at global forecasting firm Oxford Economics projecting a C$2bn blow for the province.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

By placing a tether around captive moths and projecting stars on the wall, researchers last year showed how Bogongs used the Milky Way.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

For instance, Forrester Research, Inc., was projecting that more than three million service and professional jobs would move out of the country by 2015.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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