erection
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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 the Charlevoix church had been an event of great excitement.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
In the men who were potent before treatment, 52 percent reported problems with erections two years after treatment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2011
"I refer," Miss Dewsbury went on, "to the great wireless erections on Richmond Hill."
From The City in the Clouds by C. Ranger Gull
