build
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"She leaves the Welsh Liberal Democrats stronger in our communities and ready to build," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I know that we could do better, and we want to build on that momentum,” Sarandos said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The American impulse of the late 19th century wasn’t to build monuments, but to make money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Kao “wanted to build a company as big as he could as fast as he could,” a former executive later testified in court.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
I think about the subtle tension he’s already begun to build in just a few measures.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
It builds on an executive directive the mayor signed in April, which aims to cut delays, introduce tech automation and speed up building permits for residential and commercial development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
LTX, an AI company that builds open-weight multimodal models, found that doubleAI’s Maxwell sped up its own model inference twofold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Musk says the Roadster will be the last manually drivable car the company ever builds, and that tells you everything you need to know about where Tesla is headed as a company.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, but microorganisms living in the soil can break it down before it builds up in the air.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Papi builds me a wooden stand with little legs, so I can set the typewriter on it and type in bed.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
“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
It is prophesied that the sound of the hammer will not cease for five years in Washington, at the end of which time the house will be builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
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
Inching his way toward its melody and then playing it outright, he explores its harmonic implications and its relationship to the sturdy yet bouncing bass line upon which his composition is built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The 26-year-old from Newport has been a key member of the Dragons side that has built on an encouraging 2025-26 with a promising start to the season.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
A story is being built, a narrative that signifies that Genres aims to be not just a bookshop, but a place that feels like a real-life fairy tale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Over roughly the last decade, NorthPoint built the logistics park that remade Edgerton from a quiet farming town into a lucrative industrial hub.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
They didn’t have to rely on the main roads, either; their loggers knew the network of private roads they’d built through the trees.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Sarandos thanked Bajaria for her contributions at Netflix, noting that she did the hard work of building an international team, “a great competitive differentiator for us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"It's a win for Team Canada and its resilience," commented CBC journalist Janyce McGregor during the public broadcaster's rolling coverage of a vast country of never-ending building issues.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
But a boom’s building blocks can stay expensive even after stock prices don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The time to measure the door is before the building fills with smoke.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The building is one level and painted light blue with gray trim.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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