build
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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
Michael is part of a group of people who have struggled with mental ill-health and are now giving stand-up a go to build up their self-belief and connect with others.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Taiwo Owatemi, MP for Coventry North West, was working behind the scenes to build political support.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
"We wanted to find a way to build better gut health while following a low-FODMAP diet."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
“We’re going to build a big pen out of that chicken wire,” he said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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She is now CEO of Velastegui Ventures and a board director at BlackLine, which builds “trust infrastructure” for finance in the AI era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
Residents can appeal a variety of city planning decisions, ranging from zoning exemptions granted by the department to fire safety violations and roadway or parking concerns regarding new project builds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Tim Bryan builds illusions, designing million-dollar houses of at least 4,500 square feet.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
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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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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Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
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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They now threaten to implode the entire lucrative ecosystem he built in Asia to get China the chips it needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
“This is the most complex thing ever built by humans, and it has been in space and has come back 25 times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
But given Iran’s capabilities and inherent vulnerability of fixed infrastructure, questions are intensifying over whether U.S. bases should be built back at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Both of Mykhailo's parents and his grandparents worked at the plant, starting when it was built by the Soviet Union following the end of World War II.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Maybe skunk time would be when everyone in class did research about skunks and wrote reports about skunks and built skunk dioramas.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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The country of 35 million people enjoys relative proximity to China, friendly relations with Beijing and a government that makes building and operating data centers easy, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Four fire engines were sent to the four-storey building on Copland Road, in the Ibrox area, just after 17:00 on Friday after reports of a fire on the ground floor.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Dychtwald started building companies with products that catered to older people, such as local magazines and a health-products superstore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
County, surf heights of 6 to 9 feet were expected Saturday, building to 8 to 12 feet, the National Weather Service reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
And then I was standing in a line at a customs shed and the sign on the little station building said NIEUWERSCHANS.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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