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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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For the next 16 months, motorists will have to seek alternative routes to the Vincent Thomas Bridge, which is slated to close for construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

Trump has made a handful of construction projects around Washington a focus of his second term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The sound of construction workers talking added to the rumble.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

For Vara, one of the stylistic issues that stood out about The Blue Fighter was that it had used sentence constructions using "X but Y", which she says is common in AI-generated texts.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A fragment of one of these elaborate constructions survives in the dress collection stored today at Hampton Court, where Elizabeth’s “standing wardrobe” was kept.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The state also requires home hardening measures for the structure itself — from covering vents with a mesh to block embers from entering to using fire-resistant building materials — for all new constructions since 2008.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

"We now see that end of these monumental constructions coincides with the disappearance of the population that built them," Seersholm said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

The scale of their constructions and their agriculture infrastructure required sophisticated civic and social organization.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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