build
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“Open models let startups, businesses, universities and public institutions build on advanced capabilities without training every model from scratch,” the statement said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Founded by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face also provides datasets, software tools and cloud services used to build AI applications.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"What you're going to see is targeted, thoughtful tariff policy that basically says if you build here, you don't pay," Lutnick said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
This goes some distance in explaining why Nolan’s writing of the women in “The Odyssey” left so many people unsettled, and perhaps why it took weeks for “Furious” to build word-of-mouth momentum.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Between the bases and the institute, we thought the area would help us build our life and experience the American dream.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Netflix says Los Angeles remains its home base, with 47 productions shooting here in 2026 — even as it builds a $1-billion, 12-soundstage complex in New Jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
James Mayo, a financial planner in Lakewood, Colo., builds bond ladders, which means owning individual bonds or target-maturity bond funds with maturities that span multiple years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"One removes the punishment, the other builds what should be there instead."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
As the membrane bends more strongly, electrical charge polarization builds up around those grain boundaries.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
As pressure builds inside the skull, motor and mental skills deteriorate with alarming speed—typically within a few hours or less— and often without the victim even noticing the change.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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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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Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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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We have builded our Camp anew, & as it saith in Genesis, “/ dwell in the Tents of Shem.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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From below, it looks like an isolated bunker built on the side of a canyon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Andrea Panayi, from Middlewich in Cheshire, lost £125,000 from the pension pot that she built up over 20 years as a bank worker.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Copyright has been a major battleground for the generative AI sector, with publishers, musicians and artists lawyering up or cutting deals to get paid for technology that is being built with their content.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
As emerging markets began to open to foreign investors, index providers built broader benchmarks—often labeled “world,” “global” or a similar variation—that combined developed and emerging markets, and unlike “international” indexes, could include the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
My grandpappy built it with his own two hands.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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You need to balance your enjoyment of the present with building a future in California, without succumbing to 24/7 pressure.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Many employers now expect managers to do less coordinating between departments, and to spend more time in the trenches building products or generating revenue themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The company said half of the space in the Trafford Park building was unused and it would have cost too much to redevelop the site.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"This truly demonstrates the power of building atomically precise heterostructures of emergent two-dimensional quantum materials to obtain on-demand electronic and magnetic properties," Katoch said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Hell, I knew, was a hot place, so heaven must be like this cold, dank, holy building, where smoke rose like incense from the footwarmers of the paying customers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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