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build

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






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"I had a great build and, if I didn't finish with a win, then that was on me."

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

The California-based company uses what its chief executive calls “guerrilla tactics” to build its brand.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

"Do we need to build it so big? Is it too ambitious?" he added.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

To build this detailed picture, the team combined single-cell technology, spatial mapping of brain tissue, and a newly developed deep learning model.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Helping her build a gate to send Tiamat to another world felt a little like helping to weave a rope for his own hanging.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

“UCLA has a significant alumni base, and I think if momentum builds around the program, people will return to the Rose Bowl,” Fuller said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The AlloESO-T system also builds on manufacturing work already completed by Yang's laboratory for its CAR-NKT platform, a separate off-the-shelf immunotherapy strategy.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Skyworks Solutions stock surges Friday and builds on a strong move from the previous session as CEO Philip Brace set the timeline for the completion of a key merger.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

City are more methodical under Enzo Maresca, with the way that he builds play from the back - they won't be swashbuckling, put it that way.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The pressure builds in my chest, my throat, my nose, behind my eyes.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

“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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Our heritage is builded high On faith and love—they will not die!

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Wilson built Lululemon into a retailing juggernaut and helped create the athleisure category—a term he has said he hates.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

The way The Wall Street Journal described what happened next, Taco Bell essentially built a lettuce war room.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

The team proposes doing this by linking the electrons to a quantum computer built around trapped ions.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

It was easy to find twigs for kindling and he soon had a tepee of twigs built over his leaf pile.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Priya Armstrong-Pond, who lives on the seventh floor, said there had been flooding in the building on Friday.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

The president reiterated his belief that the U.S. must outpace China in building AI, saying “whoever wins AI wins.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

By the end of the prison building boom in 2000, that number had risen to 1,663.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," Coxon wrote on X.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

The building was less than a block from the Beje, and probably a century newer, but there was no Tante Anna to wax and scrub.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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