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scaffold

[skaf-uhld, -ohld] / ˈskæf əld, -oʊld /


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Alexandra Friedman, a Seattle-based friendship and relationship coach, thinks it’s OK to use AI to scaffold an uncomfortable conversation but not to lean on it throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Physically and spiritually, San Juan Capistrano is centered around its mission, one of 21 established by the Catholic Church under the Spanish crown in the 18th and 19th centuries, forming the scaffold of modern-day California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

It then spends hours creating a cone-shape "scaffold" of dozens of tension lines, around which it finally wraps a thinner type of silk before retreating upwards.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Blueprint's artificial structures, which can be created in many different shapes, are built on a 3D-printed scaffold of a biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone, which supports a collagen structure.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

They used MAPS, or microporous annealed particle scaffolds.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Some of the work is physically risky and will require crews being lowered in uspended scaffolds known as swing stages used by window cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

For example, in the civilian context, when construction workers fall off scaffolds and can’t walk until receiving surgery and physical therapy, their employers have to provide them workers’ compensation.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

Bamboo scaffolds have "intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns", the bureau's spokesperson Terence Lam was quoted as saying.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

It was a very old building, the kind with bathwater that still had to be stored in drums, windows without glass, and privy scaffolds made of bricks.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 28, 2023

Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

If New England’s stable infrastructure — owned, coached and quarterbacked by the same people for nearly two decades — scaffolded its dynasty, then its draft management sustained it.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2021

From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Raw scaffolding stretches through the space, surrounding an evolving sculptural installation that feels as though it is still in the process of arriving.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

The local artist said part of the problem was that he had been working from a scaffolding platform which obstructed his view, meaning he didn't get the "full perspective".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

It was removed in June on the orders of Cooper but the area where it was taken down remains covered by a white tarpaulin and scaffolding.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The rest of the Kennedy Center’s name is blocked by scaffolding that is wrapped in a white tarp.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon - the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan




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