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build

[bild] / bɪld /
NOUN
physical structure, form
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK






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Smaller interactions like holding hands and quickly responding to each other's texts can help build a bond.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Future characters could remember past encounters, react to a player's actions and build relationships that change over time rather than following a pre-written script.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“When you plop 200 houses down 15 miles from the place where people have to work, you have to build big roads where they can drive fast,” Ferenchak said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"The next step is to characterize abnormal functional and structural brain states along these pathways to build more detailed models for setting patient-specific stimulation parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and pulse width, for precision medicine."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

I broke branches off trees and bushes to build up my firewood stocks and plucked fresh leaves for my bed, and palm fronds to weave more fan-nets.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

A chorus of testimony from people who were once closest to Musk builds a profile of a megalomaniacal con artist.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Heart disease builds silently for years before anything announces itself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

"It is the concatenation of all of these things that builds trust because people see that, by and large, Tata is there to serve their needs rather than just take their money," Witzel said.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

His research, published in the journal Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, builds on his ongoing efforts to use mathematics to better understand the complex biological processes involved in Alzheimer's.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Far away—too far away for me to care—someone tuts with disapproval, but I ignore it as the splendor builds in my core.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“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

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

Our heritage is builded high On faith and love—they will not die!

From Time Magazine Archive

Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This from a Rams team that was built to win another Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The house will be built on green belt land which is the garden of a home off Heber's Ghyll Drive, and will be eco-friendly, to an ultra-low energy standard called Passivhaus.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

An industrial machine that built up scale and is now threatening to eat the West.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The researchers incorporated an array detector into their new microscope, allowing it to collect more light than a conventional system built around a pinhole and single detector.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The town had built a platform in front of the Empire Café and draped it with flags and clusters of balloons.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Attempts to regulate socializing at college, which have been building for years, have drawn new attention following the “Cornell 7” case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Tesla’s impressive flying Roadster isn’t about building cars at all.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Speaking near the ruined building, Annèyse said: "This is very upsetting. Harming heritage buildings just because you are angry at the government is selfish, I think. It's hurting everybody."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Fire crews also battled the fire at Limoges town hall, which the local prefecture said caused part of the building to collapse.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

I left the basket at the foot of the staircase that clung to the side of the building.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu


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