build
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The money to build my first two restaurants, Union Square Cafe and Gramercy Tavern, had come mainly from my own funds and from my family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
While Forest head coach Oliver Glasner has work to do to get his side scoring goals, he's already instilled a solid foundation to build from at the back, as has Andoni Iraola at Liverpool.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Investors had previously been concerned with Meta’s abilities to build a differentiated AI product, Bank of America’s Justin Post believes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Under the 10-page pact, the United States will build two military bases in southern and eastern Greenland.
From Barron's
“Wood!” he exclaimed when I ventured to wonder if a wooden wall would not be easier to build.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Palantir builds software aimed at allowing organisations to make better use of their data and holds a large number of UK government contracts including with the NHS, the Ministry of Defence and 11 police forces.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“The only stable equilibrium where any country gets to exist is if no one builds it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Without this protective enzyme, oxidative stress builds inside tumor cells until the damage becomes overwhelming.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
“That’s probably the most important channel through which buying a home builds wealth,” said James Choi, a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, who has challenged traditional personal-finance advice in his research.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
The rumble starts in my gut and builds, revving from zero to full-rage race-car fast at the casual mention of my girl’s impending death.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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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
Our heritage is builded high On faith and love—they will not die!
From Time Magazine Archive
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Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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 property, which was built in 1938, was snapped up by the couple in 2005 for $2.3 million, and in the decades since, has been “renovated to perfection.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
"The earliest bodies in the outer Solar System were built from 83% to 92% chondrules, with very little of the icy, volatile-rich dust that dominates later-forming objects."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The BBC's Laura Bicker is in Inner Mongolia where dozens of Chinese data centres are being built, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
One site, Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, was home to a U.S. air base built during World War II and abandoned in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It started as a soft twitter, like the distant chirping of birds, and then built to a high, steady hum.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Zendaya has several homes in her property portfolio in which the pair could have stayed—having begun building out her real estate investments in 2016.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
But to open Eleven Madison Park and Tabla, fraternal twin restaurants in MetLife’s landmarked 11 Madison building, I had had to take on significant outside investment for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"These ubiquitous little beads of rock are the basic building blocks from which the planets themselves were eventually assembled," Grewal said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Hundreds of workers in yellow helmets carry heavy equipment into the building site as welding sparks fly off metal scaffolding.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A carpenter bee buzzes by, disappearing into the awning of the building.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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