build
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"Our ambition is to build the evidence for this testing to become part of routine NHS care, so patients across the country can benefit equally from faster, more precise diagnosis."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
A group of lawmakers, industry groups and Hollywood unions have been quietly working behind the scenes for more than a year to build momentum for a federal film tax credit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It wouldn’t build a pipeline from Houston to Iowa or New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He also said using a projection that accounts for only 75% to 80% of that estimated benefit can help younger workers build a buffer into their retirement finances in case benefits are reduced.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
And infrastructure projects meant using more and more land to build roads, railways, bridges, and dams.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
“Temperature patterns remain mostly unsupportive, and despite a stretch of relatively small storage builds, inventories are set to enter the winter at healthy levels,” Andy Huenefeld of Pinebrook Energy Advisors says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
About 68% of new builds also came with HOA fees, compared with 39% of existing homes, Realtor.com noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Palantir builds software aimed at allowing organisations to make better use of their data and holds a large number of UK government contracts including with the NHS, the Ministry of Defence and 11 police forces.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
It bothers her, the ego in it, the way he builds himself up in his mind to look down on others.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
“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
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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
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
“Everything that gets put into building a data center has to be built somewhere,” Winograd said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
For Saturday's afternoon celebration, an altar has been built on the Place de la Concorde and a large area around the Champs-Élysées sealed off by police.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The median sale price of a newly built home fell 5.8% in August from a year ago, the biggest annual drop in 14 months, according to data released by the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The route was in use around the time Stonehenge was built and may have provided an important corridor toward Salisbury Plain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the years that followed, the Johnston Ridge Observatory was built there as a formal part of the national monument.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“Everything that gets put into building a data center has to be built somewhere,” Winograd said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Unverified videos and images shared online show flames and smoke rising up from a building as bystanders watch.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
As fire ripped through the apartment building, the stepfather of five paused to talk the unidentified pregnant woman out of jumping from the second-story window to the dirt and concrete below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Although the math in the bond market is starting to shift in favor of buying, investors interested in building diversified portfolios now have plenty of other options.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
With the crop in, we work building a cabin.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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