construct
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To construct the device, the researchers added silver nanoparticles to a layer of customized DNA sequences -- specially designed to be of certain compositions and lengths -- that was integrated with thin films of perovskite.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
And he goes on to, as the question suggests, accept and construct horrifying grifts, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Congress authorized reconstruction after the British burned the White House during the War of 1812 and specifically appropriated money used to construct the original East and West Wings.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
That is in bonds that have been sold by companies to construct data centers for hyperscalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Celia cannot imagine how much power and skill it would take not only to construct such a thing but to maintain it as well.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Once the selected become official members of the Green Lantern Corps, they can wield their rings to create astronomical constructs.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He and Erkılıç have achieved international acclaim for their team’s decades of foundational experimentation collaborating with dataset intelligences at the AI frontier, as well as for architecturally-scaled, narratively engaged visual embodiments of abstract technological constructs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
People will spend a solid chunk of their lives in hyper-personalized, persistent imaginary constructs, like long-running soap operas or television series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
They remain strangers to the way of life the academic constructs so well on paper.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
It’s all balanced with carefully constructed and outrageously funny physical comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, to besiege the city; a newly constructed fleet patrolled the Bosporus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
By July a barrier had been constructed nearby and many more buildings were destroyed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
I placed his food dish at the end of the obstacle course I’d constructed the day Fig was at the vet.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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When a builder is constructing a home, the taxes are based on the value of the land.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
This suggests AI may prove to be just as valuable for discovering unexpected mathematical objects as it is for constructing proofs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Tom Homan has spent years constructing the persona of a man who never backs down.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
We were working on our projects for Main Street, which is a scale model of a city block that were constructing in the back of our classroom.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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