construction
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The Rosebank oil field and the Jackdaw gas field, 150 miles east of Aberdeen, had been approved under the previous Conservative government and construction is well under way.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Worth Girvan said she supports more housing development, particularly near transit lines, saying the West Valley “needs to do our part” to scale up construction and bring housing prices down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
She pointed to news of road construction crews digging deeper and deeper into Brazil’s Amazon forest, which she said will inevitably “bring us into contact with birds and bugs” and the disease-baggage they carry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Builders in Dendermonde, Belgium, discovered $10 million worth of gold bars and coins during construction work at the site of an old brewery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s also that Santa Fe’s regional airport is under construction, mostly gutted and boarded off.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"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 only points of passage that have tollbooths are the Suez and Panama canals, both of which are artificial constructions that require maintenance.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
The album has too much happening to function as ambient or environmental music—though loops are plentiful, there’s a consistent sense of development through these constructions, as elements are born, bloom and fade away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Family is like a tapestry, sewn together in a constant story despite different constructions and experiences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Even Zillah’s gauzy constructions appear to me to have a confidence and subtlety, an assurance, that my own paintings lack: in this context my pictures are too highly finished, too decorative, too merely pretty.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing construction
Engineering - Introductory
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Engineering - Middle School
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