constructs

VERB

assemble, build

Synonyms

STRONGEST

build up compose create design erect establish fashion forge form formulate found manufacture organize produce put up set up shape

STRONG

compound constitute elevate engineer envision fabricate frame imagine invent make prefab raise rear

WEAK

cobble up cook up dream up fudge together hammer out hoke up put out put together throw together throw up trump up uprear whip up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

destroy disarrange disorder disorganize end neglect ruin

STRONG

abandon decrease demolish demote deny depress drop lessen lower raze refuse stop tell truth

WEAK

annihilate break dismantle

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constructs

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

"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

"What we conclude is that these color qualities don't emerge from additional external constructs such as cultural or learned experiences but reflect the intrinsic properties of the color metric itself," Bujack said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s uninvestible, and so significant changes have to be made.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026

And yet the world it constructs . . . lowering in pitch and warping as the batteries die, the lesson slowing as though the young man is exhausted, and then it stops.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr