build
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Finalist Phyllis Thibodeaux Beach, whose construction-worker father helped build several Boston landmarks, sees it as a way to leave her own imprint on the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Audi will build its first-ever U.S. factory in Macon, Ga., President Trump announced Saturday, marking the latest move by a global automaker to focus on American buyers as sales fall off elsewhere in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
"But this takes me back to the Ricky Hatton and Mayweather days. We can build something good."
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
As these precursor cells mature, they must build new cellular structures, produce fats, and activate genes that allow them to specialize in storing energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
‘No! We salvage our gear, we build a shelter and a fire. Then we wait. We wait for Wolf to find us.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Later in the week, the weather looks set to improve for many as high pressure builds over the near continent.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
But having to hold your breath for long periods while battling with short sticks at the bottom of a pool builds a unique team spirit, Malaysian player Hui Chin Teoh told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“That’s more powerful than what you use for welding. It's more power than a military laser. It builds up the brightest continuous laser focus ever.”
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Prices have been sliding the past week despite a string of below-average storage builds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly."
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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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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Local residents are determined to see them dismantled or, at the very least, prevent more from being built.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Buckingham Palace says that acknowledging the wrongs of the past will be built into the King's programme in all three countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first way to detect "mirror life," a hypothetical form of life built from molecules that are reversed versions of those found in living organisms on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
But expectations built into the stock prior to the release were far too high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The mud wasps had built their big nest against a ceiling rafter.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Then, there was the issue of building the project on Alaska’s North Slope, dredging an enormous amount of seabed and securing icebreaker tankers to chart paths in the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
A search and rescue effort is under way to find seven people feared trapped under rubble after a building collapsed in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Within this disk, countless small particles gradually collided and stuck together, building larger objects through a process called accretion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Police fired several tear gas grenades to clear the group, which was holding its protest near a university building and the city's police station.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
It’s in the new wing of the building, which finished construction last summer.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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