build
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He added that proposals to build on greenfield sites should "be looked at on a case-by-case basis".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Explosive plyometric exercises build the quick reactivity needed to safeguard your body as you age and help you with your balance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As economies expand, copper will be required to build electricity networks for the transition away from fossil fuels, and to create data centres for artificial intelligence, BHP said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
So the loggers went back to their jobs, turning trees into the lumber that would build America.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“We often lose our balance when doing two things at once — walking and talking or carrying groceries — and tai chi builds the capacity to coordinate and do multiple things simultaneously,” Swanson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
That is until Thatcher ratchets up the eerie tension tenfold while Refn builds his gorgeous fantasy around her.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ford, for instance, wants higher tariffs on imports from South Korea, where GM builds its most inexpensive cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
This success builds on the gold O'Connor won at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland in July and silver at last year's World Championships.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
“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
Our heritage is builded high On faith and love—they will not die!
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Oh, he was not lying; his own triumph had outrun him; he had builded even better in evil than even he could have hoped.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
Some residents believe the exposed material is part of an old groin that was built long before it expanded into a jetty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the Aerotrain designers did not see fit to extend the line to concourse D, in part because both C and D were built in the ’80s as temporary concourses meant to be replaced.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Many participants built new support networks through friends, partners, therapy, spirituality and support groups.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The expansion is expected to create 470 jobs as it is built and 920 in Berkshire more widely.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
If he’d built his house like he built his outhouse, he might still be alive today.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
This set piece would be crucial to building their sense of dread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Towriss paid tribute to Lowdon's efforts in building a team from scratch while not knowing until the 11th hour when or even whether they would be racing.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Irina Aguirre spends her days on the doorstep of one such building, just off the Plaza San Francisco.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Big talent agencies like WME, whose parent company sold the sports agency 160over90 to Publicis this year, have been building up their rosters of the youngest talent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At the front of the crowd, a microphone was on a stand at the back of the building.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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