concrete
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Among the debris, smashed concrete and twisted metal, are household items and clothes.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Architects and developers are turning to mass timber as an alternative to traditional structural materials such as steel and concrete for large buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
The partners have branded the summit as the "implementation COP", focusing on turning commitments into concrete action after years of pledges and ambitious announcements.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Other rules apply to metrics that are more concrete and straightforward.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
I had to cross those acres of concrete floors again.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Piles of bricks, slabs of concretes and mounds of rubble, and on the wall that remains standing, a bright green door which now leads to nothing.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
The Swiss company said it also wants to expand its solutions and products business, which makes pre-cast concretes, roofing products, asphalt and dry mortars to 30% of its revenue.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2021
The polymer concretes seem to be doing alright, too, so we can just … make more of those.
From Nature ● Jul. 7, 2020
They paint their pictures with essential oils, resinoids, concretes and absolutes, the building blocks of fragrance and flavor.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019
Then Ella dragged Brigit to the Conjure Creole Creamery, where attendants pulled levers making decadent concretes and malted mischief milkshakes full of pralines and petit fours and pieces of pecan pie.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Inside the concreted blocks was an extraordinary cache of iron helmets.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
They were joined by a team of ground radar experts who scanned the heavily concreted property, assisting the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s with serving a search warrant at the home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
If all six proposed facilities are approved, more than 200 acres of farmland will be turned over to concreted compounds within a three-kilometre radius of their village.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Several sewage drains have been concreted over in Karachi to make way for parking lots.
From Reuters ● Dec. 18, 2021
There was a small concreted space in front of it that wasn’t a garden, a green Mini parked on the street.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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"We're working with a new contractor for some concreting in the yard and building works," Alan said, adding that he'd received an email asking him to pay so the contractor could buy materials.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
He added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be "concreting over their oil-wells".
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022
According to him, construction workers used to be skilled in multiple aspects of the trade, but now the applicants he sees are specialized in specific categories, like framing, concreting or finishing, but not all three.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2017
Like the fact that you see Boo Radley's father concreting in the hole in the tree where Boo had been leaving gifts for the children.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
As the concreting progressed upward the trestle was extended and the chute shortened.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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