build
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“Almost all of the internet marketplaces either have a very large advertising business or plan to build one over time,” said Josh Beck, a tech analyst at Raymond James.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The US, Denmark and Greenland have signed a defence deal that allows Washington to build two new military bases in the Arctic territory, while reaffirming Copenhagen's sovereignty over it.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Investors had previously been concerned with Meta’s abilities to build a differentiated AI product, Bank of America’s Justin Post believes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Rather, we must come together to build an open-source frontier model, a cutting-edge model."
From Barron's
He would build the fire close to the lake, and put wet sand all around it to keep it from spreading.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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About 68% of new builds also came with HOA fees, compared with 39% of existing homes, Realtor.com noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Huang said that such predictions are "not grounded in science", adding that it is in Nvidia's best interest to ensure the industry builds its products responsibly.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Without this protective enzyme, oxidative stress builds inside tumor cells until the damage becomes overwhelming.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Beethoven takes a relatively simple tune and builds from it a giant tapestry of ideas and musical meanderings.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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“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
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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His published memoirs, Remembered Yesterdays,* is a book that tells a little of a man whose talents symbolized his century and whose beliefs typify the faiths on which this nation was builded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The property, which was built in 1938, was snapped up by the couple in 2005 for $2.3 million, and in the decades since, has been “renovated to perfection.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
"The earliest bodies in the outer Solar System were built from 83% to 92% chondrules, with very little of the icy, volatile-rich dust that dominates later-forming objects."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Between 1939 and 1945, the Dagenham plant built 360,000 vehicles for the Allied war effort.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
One site, Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, was home to a U.S. air base built during World War II and abandoned in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He built a brick fireplace with a huge chimney pointing straight up at the cloudless sky.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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In 2021, the star staked out an East Coast perch, picking up a Brooklyn waterfront condo in the stunning Quay building, the New York Post reported.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
But to open Eleven Madison Park and Tabla, fraternal twin restaurants in MetLife’s landmarked 11 Madison building, I had had to take on significant outside investment for the first time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"These ubiquitous little beads of rock are the basic building blocks from which the planets themselves were eventually assembled," Grewal said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
China is building hundreds of data centres - for Huawei, ByteDance, DeepSeek - in sparsely-populated provinces: Ulanqab, Ningxia and Gansu in the north, Guizhou in the south-west.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In another building I received a day’s bread ration and food coupons for three additional days.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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