erection

One key statute forbids the erection of any building or structure on federal grounds in the District of Columbia without express permission from Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Testing healthy men for prostate cancer does save lives, but also leads to treatment that can leave men unable to control their bladder or have an erection.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Dr. Sarah Furness, the Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, commissioned the statue's erection after the queen's death.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

The erection of several wind turbines is viewed by the Golan villagers as an encroachment.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023

The erection of Sing Sing offered a spectacle of total control.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

A few decades earlier, Chicago homebuilders began using a technique called “balloon-frame construction,” replacing cumbersome erections of beams and joists with rapidly built skeletons of precut lumber and nails.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2018

On the plus side, some men report improved erections when their high cholesterol was treated with statins, said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015

For instance, some men become impotent after surgery for prostate or rectal cancer because the nerves that regulate erections, which run through the rectum and prostate into the centre of the penis, can get damaged.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2014

That is convincing evidence that the birds' erections are controlled by the lymph system, the researchers say.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2011

The most remarkable consist of long avenues of menhirs or standing stones; but there is also a profusion of other erections, such as dolmens and barrows, throughout the whole district.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various