construct
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The researchers believe the bees mixed dirt with saliva to construct each tiny nest, which measured less than the size of a pencil eraser.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
To construct it, I divided all months since 1947 into four groups, depending on how each month’s trailing 12-month CPI inflation rate compared with where it stood a year previously.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The danger is that the larger models of the future will simply construct more sophisticated patterns based on noise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
"Presidential elections allow political entrepreneurs to bypass weak or discredited parties and construct a direct relationship with voters," she said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
He’s got this mega-building he’s planning to construct right on Main Street.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
"What we conclude is that these color qualities don't emerge from additional external constructs such as cultural or learned experiences but reflect the intrinsic properties of the color metric itself," Bujack said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
These constructs may mock our self-importance, but approaching the world in any other way seems painfully naive.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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You might try to scoop up a bargain or avoid certain headaches by purchasing a newly constructed house.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
To better reflect those conditions, the scientists constructed a simplified microbial community containing all 25 bacterial species.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Mexico has lost just twice here in competitive matches since the stadium was constructed in 1966.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
There are also concerns about the high-rise apartments that have been constructed with some requiring repairs for safety problems.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
It slowed to a stop beside the wood platform in front of the theater, constructed especially to assist carriage riders in getting out of their vehicles and avoiding the muddy street.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Rhoads, a supplier to Navy submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat, is constructing a 95,000-square-foot high-bay submarine manufacturing and assembly facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Intent on finding “language that has emotional not intellectual meaning to people,” Nolan opted to use colloquial, contemporary dialogue when constructing his script rather than artificially elevated speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
By constructing the molecules from scratch in the laboratory, they confirmed the precise structures of secalosides A and B for the first time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
In many ways, his life has been spent constructing a tribe.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
It is not so much a question of constructing an imitation of conditions in the wild as of getting to the essence of these conditions.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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