concrete

"Much of the Antalya summit will be a 'roll up the sleeves' effort. Governments need to make concrete headway in negotiations, though there may not be dramatic outcomes this year," Waskow told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The statue, dedicated in 2008, stood on a concrete slab between lanes of traffic outside the Sacramento Youth Center in the 1900 block of Del Paso Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Earlier in the day, U.S. officials said there was still no concrete evidence about who, if anyone, was behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Grasping for concrete facts can leave you with two immutable bits of data: when a wrestler was born and when they died, with everything in between being a show on some level.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the Air Force’s Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, the SAC commander marched down a concrete ramp into the earth.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Piles of bricks, slabs of concretes and mounds of rubble, and on the wall that remains standing, a bright green door which now leads to nothing.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022

The Swiss company said it also wants to expand its solutions and products business, which makes pre-cast concretes, roofing products, asphalt and dry mortars to 30% of its revenue.

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2021

The polymer concretes seem to be doing alright, too, so we can just … make more of those.

From Nature ● Jul. 7, 2020

They paint their pictures with essential oils, resinoids, concretes and absolutes, the building blocks of fragrance and flavor.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019

Then Ella dragged Brigit to the Conjure Creole Creamery, where attendants pulled levers making decadent concretes and malted mischief milkshakes full of pralines and petit fours and pieces of pecan pie.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Inside the concreted blocks was an extraordinary cache of iron helmets.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

They were joined by a team of ground radar experts who scanned the heavily concreted property, assisting the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s with serving a search warrant at the home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Several sewage drains have been concreted over in Karachi to make way for parking lots.

From Reuters ● Dec. 18, 2021

Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.

From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019

The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be "concreting over their oil-wells".

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022

The concreting of Houston’s green spaces removed key sponges for Harvey’s water, which sloshed into people’s homes.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2019

According to him, construction workers used to be skilled in multiple aspects of the trade, but now the applicants he sees are specialized in specific categories, like framing, concreting or finishing, but not all three.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2017

The people behind Supurbia are quick to point out they have no intention of "garden-grabbing" or concreting over green spaces.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2014

The concreting of the roof slab was carried on continuously, and, when partly completed, the floor was laid in the shade.

From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by George Robert Graham Conway