structure
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A massive structure fire was threatening multiple businesses in Santa Clarita Monday morning and has already destroyed one building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil has said new investors have been secured for next season but has been tight-lipped on the league's future plans and structure.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Traditionally, physicists have investigated nuclear structure using relatively low-energy experiments, including measurements of how atomic nuclei rotate and vibrate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It stood alone, unattached to any other structure.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
“The fact that our seas will be higher than average is a very concerning factor for coastal erosion and wave impact on cliffs and other structures near the coast, for coastal flooding,” Warrick said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Local electeds suggested to Scott that the administration consider technology — like infrared surveillance — instead of building physical and permanent structures.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Fire officials said structures had been burned but didn’t specify how many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The fossil belongs to Dendrocrinus simcoensis and preserves its tube feet, delicate structures that almost never survive fossilization.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Wooden structures were swept away, and now all that remained were structures made of steel or stone.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
At the time of the murder, he was on a structured deferred sentence for that case.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The spinoff is expected to be structured as tax-free for all company shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
What these apps do best is lay bare the ways in which our entire economy is structured like a betting app strung together by incentive perverts.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Derivative funds are similar to structured notes, financial instruments that combine a bond with an embedded derivative, which have long been sold on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Aware that each perfectly structured topiary, every detail down to the stones that line the paths like pearls, must have been planned.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
If she had children, I would consider structuring the trust to help with things like education or a first home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
She and her husband hold money meetings, and she shared how they think about structuring a family office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Chesney also talked about the structuring of his practices, specifically with having some in the morning and afternoon to expose his players to the heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It enables rapid structuring of hydrogels in the sub-micrometer range," she says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
PIH staff has begun to focus on methods of structuring aid and loans so that in the future the sick and indigent will be the primary beneficiaries.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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