build
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Any new recommendations will build on plans the government has already announced to allow students in England to choose new vocational GCSEs from age 14.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
The enlargement of the OIF, which promotes economic and cultural cooperation, "requires us to build consensus in order to preserve the union", the French president said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
"We wanted to find a way to build better gut health while following a low-FODMAP diet."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Taiwo Owatemi, MP for Coventry North West, was working behind the scenes to build political support.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
So the loggers went back to their jobs, turning trees into the lumber that would build America.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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“That will attenuate the immediate effect,” he said, “but the pressure builds up.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The Ivy League dropout who builds a billion-dollar company gets a profile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Wynter Waxeth” builds from the hymnal melodies of a frostbitten gothic abbey, into groans of percussion and stacks of frantic, escalating chants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
With that unique selling point more common now than a decade ago, how he builds on it will dictate how his tenure unfolds.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Father builds a fire, even though Mother warns that the top of the chimney is still missing.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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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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Percy Haughton's widow watched the Columbia team that he had builded sink to defeat before Cornell at Ithaca.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
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 remarkable rearguard resistance is what will live long in the memory, but Wales’ victory was also built on the clinical offensive game most evident at the start of each half.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
“This is the most complex thing ever built by humans, and it has been in space and has come back 25 times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Worse, it can leave ordinary people feeling powerless at precisely the moment when we need far more people involved in deciding how AI is built, governed and used.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Friday, SpaceX launched Starship, the largest rocket ever built by humans, for the 15th time.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Regan took it, and I peered over her shoulder at the picture of a slimly built woman in her forties.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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"Writing these songs felt like building myself a little shield and a kind of safety bubble," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
The country of 35 million people enjoys relative proximity to China, friendly relations with Beijing and a government that makes building and operating data centers easy, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered company spun off from a Chinese developer and operator of data centers, is building data centers able to house Nvidia chips across Malaysia and Indonesia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
County, surf heights of 6 to 9 feet were expected Saturday, building to 8 to 12 feet, the National Weather Service reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 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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