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construct

[kuhn-struhkt, kon-struhkt] / kənˈstrʌkt, ˈkɒn strʌkt /


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The tower that Align Real Estate wants to construct above the Safeway on Marina Boulevard is among San Francisco’s most recognizable buildings these days, and it hasn’t even been built yet.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The Daily Telegraph said it had obtained unredacted plans that showed Beijing planned to construct a "concealed chamber" among 208 "secret rooms" underneath the embassy, which would be close to sensitive underground communications cables.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

You have to look beyond the interior of a courtroom to see the people on the ground fighting to construct constitutional meaning.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Interest in the Backrooms persists precisely because they lack a fixed mythology, geographical reality, or narrative history, allowing users to construct meaning around places that, nonetheless, feel uncannily familiar.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

He and Erkılıç have achieved international acclaim for their team’s decades of foundational experimentation collaborating with dataset intelligences at the AI frontier, as well as for architecturally-scaled, narratively engaged visual embodiments of abstract technological constructs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

Roan’s lipstick gone “awry” on her teeth brings a camp sensibility to both mock and celebrate feminine performance that resists traditional heteronormative constructs.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2026

In the other half, we reduced expression using "Tough Decoy" constructs.

From Science Daily Feb. 17, 2026

And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Its true opposite is not the restaurant sandwich, constructed by a chef and eaten promptly under ideal conditions.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

The company was based at the Old Vic for 13 years before moving into its purpose-built home, which was constructed between 1969 and 1976.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

This unusual process may explain why vertebrate eyes are constructed so differently from the eyes of many other animals.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

EU trade spokesman Olof Gill said: "It is our clear understanding and expectation that the US will honor the commitments that are spelled out under the EU-US Joint Statement, whatever tariff regime is constructed."

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Technical proofs have to be constructed by the advocate.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

I found myself surprisingly moved by the meditative activities and programming, even if it felt silly at first to be constructing a mandala with leaves and twigs in the middle of a workweek.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Quijada and Robinson invite us into the process of making their musical, constructing the show’s soundscape and musical score in real time by recording musical phrases into a looping station and layering in sound.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 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

Avant Homes is currently constructing 109 homes as part of a development called Darroch Fields.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

“I think I’m sleeping. We are constructing something here for the N’daa,” Uncle Jet said.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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