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
Michael is part of a group of people who have struggled with mental ill-health and are now giving stand-up a go to build up their self-belief and connect with others.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
But as battles over where to build data centers intensify, developers are betting that offshore facilities could face less opposition from the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
“And what about the brook, and the mountain, and the rest of the valley? They don’t get to build there, or play there, or anything else, right?”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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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
She is now CEO of Velastegui Ventures and a board director at BlackLine, which builds “trust infrastructure” for finance in the AI era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Even the United States, with its industrial capacity, is not prepared to defend against an attacker that builds ballistic missiles at industrial scale,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Residents can appeal a variety of city planning decisions, ranging from zoning exemptions granted by the department to fire safety violations and roadway or parking concerns regarding new project builds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Dufay builds an identifiable melody, nestled among harmonious chords that lead along the arc of a phrase towards a satisfying cadence.
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
And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
From Time Magazine Archive
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Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both.
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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Oh, he was not lying; his own triumph had outrun him; he had builded even better in evil than even he could have hoped.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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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
Huang built a multibillion-dollar business to feed the ravenous appetite of Chinese customers for American chips, cultivating a network of Asian partners who could serve the Chinese far from Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Inside the prison walls, they built nightclubs and swimming pools and created luxurious cells with big screen TVs and marble decorations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
But given Iran’s capabilities and inherent vulnerability of fixed infrastructure, questions are intensifying over whether U.S. bases should be built back at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Pop built fires all around the edges of our field, hoping the clouds of smoke would scare the grasshoppers away.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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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
She said these more negative news stories were building "public understanding", and said it was encouraging people to "want to take greater control over these technologies".
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Aolani says it has systems in place to strictly adhere to U.S. regulations, and from the start has been focused on building a global customer base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Friends of the Earth campaigner Kim Pratt believes the people of Scotland should have the final say on the building of data centres.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
It was dark night when we were marched at last out of the building.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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