build
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Following a massive borrowing spree by hyperscalers to build out AI infrastructure, market participants have taken out more protection on their trades against borrower default.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
"He made me believe that he loved me and that he wanted to build a life with me, so I had no reason to really doubt him," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
The question is whether they will be able to build the capacity to meet that demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
He has 28 days to build a coalition, with a possible two-week extension.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
“When are we going to build a new hut?”
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
“Because of you, the Los Angeles Community College District will have a trustee who believes our colleges are where this city builds opportunity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
B-SYNC builds on years of research by Okada and Wendell Lim, PhD, a professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
Super Micro builds customizable server racks and modular hardware setups to use in data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Instead, the $3 million house he builds will be across the street from the beach at the Cabo Real Surf Club, a private residential club next to an artificial lagoon with a wave machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
“In my purse,” she said, “I have a mechanism which our autofac on Mars builds as an emer—”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
From Time Magazine Archive
Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is prophesied that the sound of the hammer will not cease for five years in Washington, at the end of which time the house will be builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have builded our Camp anew, & as it saith in Genesis, “/ dwell in the Tents of Shem.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Similar work to unclog drainage systems is ongoing across Nairobi, a sprawling city built on hilly ground crossed by three major rivers.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Walmart built 2.4 million square feet of mass-timber office space in Bentonville, Ark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Jordan, a former champion wrestler who has represented Ohio in Congress since 2007, built his reputation as a political brawler and fierce critic of the Republican establishment.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
But headwind framing is hiding a more consequential shift, one the standard growth model was never built to capture.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
We went sledding in the park, built a snowman in the garden, threw snowballs at one another on the way to and from school.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Son also plunged into new areas, particularly data centers, as SoftBank foresaw building massive server farms that would be used by OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Growing public debate around children's screen time and the role of technology meant squishy toys, stickers and building sets such as Lego were popular.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The city’s convoluted building and development process is unique to the city of L.A. and can’t be compared to other cities in the state, said Haines of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
In Argentina's saints, Leo said, there is "a unity between passion for the Gospel and commitment to building a fraternal and caring nation."
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Frau Mikes turned out to be an Austrian woman who had worked as a charwoman in an office building.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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