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concrete

[kon-kreet, kong-, kon-kreet, kong-, kon-kreet, kong-] / ˈkɒn krit, ˈkɒŋ-, kɒnˈkrit, kɒŋ-, kɒnˈkrit, kɒŋ- /




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Her company, Terekh.Group, pivoted to making concrete antitank fortifications.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

As the 65-year-old was using a pickax to remove what he thought was a rectangular piece of concrete, the object moved.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Now dozens of people settle onto the still-warm concrete after sunset.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

The trilevel main residence, a 3,300-square-foot building, is made entirely of steel, concrete, and glass.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Curious spectators gathered along the concrete walls that lined the banks.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

If all six proposed facilities are approved, more than 200 acres of farmland will be turned over to concreted compounds within a three-kilometre radius of their village.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2024

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

There was a small concreted space in front of it that wasn’t a garden, a green Mini parked on the street.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

"We're working with a new contractor for some concreting in the yard and building works," Alan said, adding that he'd received an email asking him to pay so the contractor could buy materials.

From BBC Nov. 24, 2024

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

This is, of course, for work of such size that one course is a day's work of concreting.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette




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