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construct

[kuhn-struhkt, kon-struhkt] / kənˈstrʌkt, ˈkɒn strʌkt /


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"Our approach is to pick small goals we aim to prove with flight data and we construct an airframe for that one task."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Spielberg’s vision also reportedly included more than $7 million worth of renovations, as well as plans to construct a 2,400-square-foot guesthouse and a three-story guardhouse.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The gangs depend on secretive “builders” who meticulously construct skimming devices that even diligent merchants can miss, investigators say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

He then promoted his work in San Diego to improve student performance, raise teacher salaries and construct “environmentally sustainable schools built by union workers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Anyhow he no longer had to listen to the nerve-wracking wheezing of the construct; he could relax.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

Roan’s lipstick gone “awry” on her teeth brings a camp sensibility to both mock and celebrate feminine performance that resists traditional heteronormative constructs.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

In the other half, we reduced expression using "Tough Decoy" constructs.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026

These constructs may mock our self-importance, but approaching the world in any other way seems painfully naive.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The researchers then constructed a device to test the idea with three photons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Nearby is one of the movie’s crudely constructed stick figures — a reminder that sometimes a few twigs and some twine are all it takes to lodge an image permanently in the culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The film is yet to reach a wider audience, but its brief trailer offers a glimpse of how Rio constructed this world.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The zeppelin’s enormous frame was constructed of a lightweight aluminum-copper alloy, covered with more than 300,000 square feet of sealed canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The harmonic series is not just a useful idea constructed by music theory; it is often found in "real life," in the real-world physics of musical sounds.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

In the corridors of Brussels, there's whispered talk of constructing a "special association agreement" with Canada.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rather than constructing the desired quantum states one small piece at a time, their method can perform a wide variety of operations much faster.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Haynie said that in retrospect, the school might have been better off not constructing so much simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy




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