construction
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Police in China's Shaanxi province say they have detained a 47-year-old man for damaging a government building with "construction machinery" on Monday afternoon.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Van Nuys baseball coach Andres Sepulveda lost his position after an investigation into the construction of an unauthorized batting cage donated by alumni.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Timber growers have long viewed mass timber as an avenue to a bigger piece of the relatively stable market for commercial construction and public buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
One of the legal challengers, a group dedicated to preserving a historic church in the region, said it was disappointed by Monday’s decision but would keep fighting the construction in court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The sound of construction workers talking added to the rumble.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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For Vara, one of the stylistic issues that stood out about The Blue Fighter was that it had used sentence constructions using "X but Y", which she says is common in AI-generated texts.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The clouds were made in the Netherlands by a firm with a history of building steel ship hulls that now specializes in building complex steel constructions like the clouds using digital data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
AI writing seems off, and not just because of its reliance on “it’s not X, it’s Y” constructions or my beloved em dashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"We now see that end of these monumental constructions coincides with the disappearance of the population that built them," Seersholm said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
The next four constructions allow a writer to shift a phrase rightward when it is too heavy or too newsworthy to be taking up space in the middle of a sentence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Engineering - Introductory
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