concrete
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On the diplomatic side, Burnham will be looking for concrete outcomes from his Macron talks as he eyes closer post-Brexit cooperation with the European Union.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Soldiers are positioned behind concrete walls, but the road is empty.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The hulking, three-story gray concrete structure is the width of a city block, with entrances on Tobias Avenue and Van Nuys Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Roberts and his fellow dissenters saw a much more concrete injury.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
The forest itself, ten miles across, was a tangled thicket of trees and thorny underbrush honeycombed with German tunnels, concrete dugouts, and machine-gun nests that the Germans had spent four years fortifying.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Piles of bricks, slabs of concretes and mounds of rubble, and on the wall that remains standing, a bright green door which now leads to nothing.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
The Swiss company said it also wants to expand its solutions and products business, which makes pre-cast concretes, roofing products, asphalt and dry mortars to 30% of its revenue.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2021
The polymer concretes seem to be doing alright, too, so we can just … make more of those.
From Nature ● Jul. 7, 2020
They paint their pictures with essential oils, resinoids, concretes and absolutes, the building blocks of fragrance and flavor.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019
Then Ella dragged Brigit to the Conjure Creole Creamery, where attendants pulled levers making decadent concretes and malted mischief milkshakes full of pralines and petit fours and pieces of pecan pie.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Inside the concreted blocks was an extraordinary cache of iron helmets.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
They were joined by a team of ground radar experts who scanned the heavily concreted property, assisting the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s with serving a search warrant at the home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019
Streets are gridlocked, property prices have jumped and lakes and open spaces concreted over.
From Reuters ● Sep. 15, 2016
The sandbagging on the ground-floor windows was reinforced, and civilian contractors were on the roofs checking the firmness of the chimney stacks and the concreted skylights.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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"We're working with a new contractor for some concreting in the yard and building works," Alan said, adding that he'd received an email asking him to pay so the contractor could buy materials.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
The concreting of Houston’s green spaces removed key sponges for Harvey’s water, which sloshed into people’s homes.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2019
According to him, construction workers used to be skilled in multiple aspects of the trade, but now the applicants he sees are specialized in specific categories, like framing, concreting or finishing, but not all three.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2017
The people behind Supurbia are quick to point out they have no intention of "garden-grabbing" or concreting over green spaces.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2014
In concreting large diameters, the work may be done by molding successive full barrel sections, or by molding first the invert and then the roof arch, each in sections.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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