build
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The tender will support up to seven AI facilities, known as gigafactories, the commission said, adding that this would be split between one phase for establishing facilities and a second to build them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
JLR continued to build the Land Rover and Range Rover brands, but the cyber-attack took those lines down.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
For Gen Zers wondering what the best places are to park their money, here are some critical ways they can build a solid financial foundation, according to experts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Though the Scooby-Doo towers would never make it across the dunes, there are better ways to build a sandwich for adventure.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Later, we’ll build your ma a real house,” Father says repeatedly.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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"The robotics story builds directly on China's electric vehicle ecosystem," says Kyle Chan, a researcher at the Brookings Institution.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Redstone’s critique builds on others circulating within the profession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Rolland further noted that PC builds in the second half of the year will likely “be significantly weaker” compared to previous years due to high memory costs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Find insight on the Strait of Hormuz, weekly builds in U.S. crude oil and more in the latest Market Talks covering energy and utilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The closer we get to Euston, the more anxious I feel; pressure builds; how will today be?
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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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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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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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Nexus was founded by energy-industry veterans who built large-scale natural-gas projects and are now trying to bring their megaproject experience to the booming data center sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The filmmaking team went internal on purpose, and built a movie about a young man nobody remembers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I just think it’s really important to be asking, like, how do you win when you haven’t built a movement?”
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
The military has also built dozens of bases, outposts and staging areas behind the barrier along the Yellow Line.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
My grandpappy built it with his own two hands.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Disney Jr. is now building a Marvel preschool universe of sorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Possible targets include functional organic molecules, biomolecular building blocks, and materials designed to capture or transfer energy from light.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, Howe got partway through pre-season before making his decision, the difficulties of building a squad he is happy with having become too much.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
That is the true art of the beach sandwich: building something not merely to endure the wait, but to meet you at the other end of it.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
As I left the building, a workman in a blue cap and blue overalls stepped up to me.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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