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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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Leading up to Thursday’s tech-stock tumble, concern was growing over the borrowing costs for hyperscalers and other companies to fund data-center construction and to pay for cloud computing and AI development services.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

But there were falls in the construction sector and in manufacturing of machinery and equipment, Destatis said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The District of Columbia and Virginia jumped into the fight last weekend with another lawsuit trying to stop construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Since taking the presidency, Prabowo has shown little interest in pushing ahead with Jokowi's legacy project: the construction of Nusantara, a new capital.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The walls around us are cluttered with construction paper posters, marker-drawn announcements for spring sports tryouts, and Black History Month events.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The club would foot constructions costs as a "gift" to Americans and provide free memberships to future presidents - and accommodations to visiting foreign dignitaries.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The clouds were made in the Netherlands by a firm with a history of building steel ship hulls that now specializes in building complex steel constructions like the clouds using digital data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Cappelleri also pointed out that despite their different constructions, the RSP ETF and the Dow often arrive at very similar results.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

If Ms. Orton sang like her 19-year-old self, had the songs been tight constructions manicured by a hired-gun songwriter, had her insights felt unearned, such a declaration could have come across as trite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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