scaffolding
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Workers removed Trump's name from the building in June, but scaffolding and tarps have remained ever since.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Then scaffolding went up around the building almost immediately after state tax credits were issued in May.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sweeney believes the scaffolding had only been up a few days so the building work had not yet started.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
She thought about borrowing some metal scaffolding from above to use as a fire pole, but it was all bolted in place.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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