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build

[bild] / bɪld /
NOUN
physical structure, form
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK






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Leo will come right up to the doors of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a neat brick church where workers are racing against the clock to build a stage for his arrival.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has put his cabinet ministers and other senior government officials through military training, saying armed forces discipline can help build stronger leaders and advance the country's development.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Yet for most companies borrowing to build AI infrastructure, the cost of capital has gone up, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

"This system represents a unique way to potentially build a molecular sensor and switch encoded in DNA and RNA, that no one has thought of before," Zhang says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

He couldn’t build a fire, not with the forest so dry.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

“We are looking through short-term lithium price movements and investing in Kathleen Valley today, because an expanded, more efficient operation builds a more resilient Liontown through the cycle,” said Chief Executive Tony Ottaviano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

SK Hynix executives on a conference call said that even as it builds more fabs, the rising share of high-performance products like HBM chips demands more resources.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Fatty liver, the earliest stage of MASLD, occurs when excess fat builds up in the liver.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

“It can itch as my skin adjusts to the glue or when sweat builds up under it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

“In my purse,” she said, “I have a mechanism which our autofac on Mars builds as an emer—”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

“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

Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.

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

And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The November 3 vote also marks what the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue called the first US election with AI tools built into every major tech platform.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

But each is, in its own way, built upon decades’ worth of misrepresenting Haiti’s syncretic faith to the detriment and demonization of a people.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Google’s core business, built upon ranking and indexing the open web, is facing a structural disruption as artificial intelligence changes how users navigate the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The discovery of a substantial built structure suggests that, during the second millennium BC, communities in north-west Africa were actively shaping their environment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Their dad—my grandfather, who I don’t really know—had built a treehouse in their yard when they were kids.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

She wrote about the need for governments to be "braver" in building big infrastructure projects and "clear eyed" about the risks and benefits AI would drive in advanced economies.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The measure would let the City Council raise building height limits, set strict timelines on planning votes and automatically approve some amendments, opening the door to taller towers and speedier permitting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“We can stop city hall from being a barrier to opening small businesses and building the housing that we desperately need,” she said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Any moratoriums on building datacenters that stem out of the midterms could trigger less capital flowing to the AI build-out, said Catrambone at DWS.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

To plead, to argue, anything to fill up the awful silence and release the agitation building in me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu


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