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Other workers erect scaffolding for a four-story structure where they will assemble, piece by piece, the giant replica of the pope.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The council has acknowledged it was "unreasonable" to erect the original green fence at the heart of the dispute, adding it had "apologised for any distress caused".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Federal law requires express congressional authority to erect a building or structure on federal parks and public grounds in Washington.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

If she didn’t already have her own theme park, it would be our cultural duty to erect one; she is among the most talented and universally beloved artists our country has ever produced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

All in the same part of a second it hit him and his back arched, snapped him erect, and then it seemed to fill the whole shelter and slammed into Brian as well.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

The act erects massive barriers to entry to the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

WSF’s cumbersome advancement system favors insiders and erects barriers to hiring experienced mariners.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

If the franchise ever erects statues in Exposition Park, the first will be made in his image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

PHOTOS: Finland erects barriers at border with Russia to control influx of migrants.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself, erects cities like those out there, does everything it can to give itself respect and beauty, and then it dies.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

How long ago was this ancient stone erected?

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

For their part, they were probably embarrassed to realize that you had given enough and erected an invisible, though unmistakable, boundary between the two households.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Stevenage Borough Council said the sign was erected at Fairlands Valley Park, external to stop people outside of the club from "using high-powered model boats" on Millennium Lake.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Instead, when the fever rampaged through Philadelphia in summers to come, vast tent encampments were erected for the poor by the Schuylkill River and in the Northern Liberties.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Morgan Renfro poured a week and $1,000 into erecting a giant vomiting skeleton outside her house near Columbus, Ohio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Authorities deployed thousands of security personnel across central Delhi for a third straight day, erecting heavy metal barricades and closing key metro stations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

But he will call on the EU to design its "Made in Europe" programme in a way that deepens ties with the UK "rather than erecting new barriers", Treasury sources told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

In 2021, Tennessee lawmakers proposed erecting a statue of Parton on the grounds of the state Capitol.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Contractors had begun erecting two of the firm’s newest, tallest Chicago skyscrapers, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Temple and the Masonic Fraternity Temple, at twenty-one stories the tallest building in the world.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson