build
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In 2019, Amazon abandoned its $2.5 billion plan to build a New York City headquarters after political opposition to subsidies it was set to receive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Also in the room are four young engineers crowded around a console, trying to crack the code for a prototype, a new robot that they hope will help build other robots.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Central bank chief Safwat Raslan lauded the development, adding that his institution was "working to build a modern and reliable financial system capable of evolving with developments and taking advantage of all opportunities."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
In the movie, Bolleau played the teen daughter of two scientists who build a time machine that malfunctions, forcing the kids to take care of their parents as they “de-age” and become children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
In time they had children and grandchildren who also learned to fish and build boats, and their families prospered in Trokorpe.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Now, the Express says he "must rule out" new builds on green belt land "or face the fury of campaigners and homemakers".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Another builds rainbow-colored bowls overflowing with blackened chicken, rice, leafy greens, fresh vegetables and other thoughtfully placed garnishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Wall Street sees plenty of room for the stock to return to its previous high as SpaceX builds out its businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The announcement comes a month after Burnham replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister, and builds on his promise on his first day in office to end rough sleeping.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Successful experimentation builds confidence in the experimental method; failure undermines it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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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It is prophesied that the sound of the hammer will not cease for five years in Washington, at the end of which time the house will be builded.
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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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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In essence, it is a tourism industry built around the feelings that have made things like roller coasters so popular for a century—but vastly magnified and in spectacular natural settings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
According to local reports, the theme parks could be built on the site of the former Mirapolis park in Val-d'Oise, which closed 35 years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The parks will be built and opened in stages, with construction expected to take several years, Macron's office said, without giving an opening date.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, vehicles built in the European Union, Japan and South Korea enjoy a U.S. tariff rate of 15%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
At the final selection, I, along with all the other able-bodied souls, was shunted to one side, headed for the newly built Plaszow forced-labor camp.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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However, she acknowledges that while China is good at building the body, the US is still leading at building the "brain", which includes developing the AI to programme robots.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Free from the traditional New York publishing bubble, Transit Books and Unnamed Press are building creative, distinct — and flourishing — literary houses on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He added that despite progress towards a pact, "that momentum reversed" in the end, stressing that building domestically and diversifying trade abroad has been "plan A from the start."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
“This agreement allows us to maintain our rental partnership with Zillow through at least 2030 while building and investing in a stand-alone rentals business of our own,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
She walks toward the front of the building, where coordinating green picnic tables sit beneath a canopy, with vehicles parked on either side.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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