construction

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Perhaps the most concentrated assault in the proposed budget, as my colleague Hayley Smith reported, is the one aimed at research, development, and construction of renewable energy sources.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

AALA/Teamsters 2010 represents administrators with teaching credentials, such as principals, and also a group of central managers, such as a database administrator and a construction manager.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

The data-center boom today is driven by the construction of large properties for training and operating artificial intelligence, or so-called hyperscale data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

In Riyadh, construction crews in recent months parked their backhoes at a quarter-mile-wide pit where the world’s largest building—a gargantuan cube that could hold 20 Empire State Buildings—was supposed to be built.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

I stood on the sidewalk and let the perfumed breeze blow over me, free of construction dust and exhaust fumes.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda