build
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Any new recommendations will build on plans the government has already announced to allow students in England to choose new vocational GCSEs from age 14.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
The enlargement of the OIF, which promotes economic and cultural cooperation, "requires us to build consensus in order to preserve the union", the French president said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
Cloud providers are setting their sights on regions other than Southeast Asia, such as Japan, Brazil, Central Asia and Europe, to build out new computing capacity that can serve Chinese customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
"We wanted to find a way to build better gut health while following a low-FODMAP diet."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
While I could not find the right materials to build my own cage crinoline, I still wanted a wide skirt—wide enough to hide a flock of chickens under it if I liked.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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“That will attenuate the immediate effect,” he said, “but the pressure builds up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
“Even the United States, with its industrial capacity, is not prepared to defend against an attacker that builds ballistic missiles at industrial scale,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
However, inland it will be calm as a ridge of high pressure builds.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Because of you, the Los Angeles Community College District will have a trustee who believes our colleges are where this city builds opportunity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
For every beautiful tent he creates, she builds one in return.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
From Time Magazine Archive
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His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When I awoke this morning he hath builded me a Fire in the Grate.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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The remarkable rearguard resistance is what will live long in the memory, but Wales’ victory was also built on the clinical offensive game most evident at the start of each half.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
The focus on charitable giving has favored a crop of wealth-management firms that have built their brands on having a values orientation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
People built that, and it went into space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
A large transmission line built for a data center will serve other customers, making it difficult to determine how its costs should be divided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Our conversations are typically built on competitive sarcasm.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"Writing these songs felt like building myself a little shield and a kind of safety bubble," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
But the prospect of returning home to be with his mother, and building a new department in a prestigious university, proved too good to turn down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
While some comic techniques can be taught, McGarry says, much of his work as a mentor involved building their self-belief.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Aolani says it has systems in place to strictly adhere to U.S. regulations, and from the start has been focused on building a global customer base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
She vows that this will only make the counterprotesters work harder to make sure the building opens in six days.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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