erected
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Around that time, an office prankster briefly erected a life-size cardboard cutout of imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried—a joke partly about how similar Coplan, a fellow crypto billionaire, is in appearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Grade II-listed statue was erected as a national memorial in 1880 after receiving special permission from Queen Victoria.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Fatima Emar, Mohammed's wife, says that the family had originally erected tents after the houses they had built in 2023 were destroyed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
An “autodefensa,” or armed member of the town’s militia, checks a vehicle’s paperwork at one of the barricades erected to protect San Ángel Zurumucapio,.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Particularly strong defences were erected around the home.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
