structure
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“Beginning Middle End” unfolds in 24 parts, emulating the structure of the Odyssey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Pressure and temperature alone may not determine which structure the material adopts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Anita Asante: Alonso will give them structure and bring an identity to the team but he won't restrict the players.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
From here, Robert carefully stacks a Jenga tower of suspense-laden set pieces and surprisingly moving family drama, without so much as letting the structure teeter.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Two doors down, I reached the new shul scheduled to open by summer’s end, a two-story structure of wood with a pitched roof, skeletal as though burnt.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Solar prominences are enormous structures of glowing plasma that extend outward from the Sun's surface and are often shaped by powerful magnetic fields.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The two companies already are carrying substantial interest costs due to their existing debt structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In DKD, the kidneys are already dealing with elevated pressure and hyperfiltration, a condition in which their filtering structures are placed under excessive strain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
However, it’s understood that the property was home to eight structures, which totaled about 15,400 square feet of living space, including eight bedrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
At Caltech, two physical chemists, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, had used this technique to solve the structures of several protein fragments—a feat that would win Pauling the Nobel Prize in 1954.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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At the time of the murder, he was on a structured deferred sentence for that case.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Tata Group is uniquely structured - a charitable arm called Tata Trusts owns 66% of the group's parent company, Tata Sons.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
"You can decompose a thought into subcomponents, like little atoms of logical propositions, and you can combine them in a hierarchical manner to make more complex structured rules, very akin to language."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some huge percentage of the increase—more than half, certainly, but exactly how much more than half they declined to tell Eisman—flowed from the arcane end of the home finance sector, known as structured finance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
Prosecutors charged Thola-Duran with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, to receive and transport stolen property interstate, and to commit money laundering, and structuring transactions to avoid federal financial reporting requirements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
"It enables rapid structuring of hydrogels in the sub-micrometer range," she says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
He runs his fingers through his hair, structuring it just so.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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