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construct

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


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The technology allowed them to construct detailed 3D images without damaging the preserved soft tissue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

"Our approach is to pick small goals we aim to prove with flight data and we construct an airframe for that one task."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Spielberg’s vision also reportedly included more than $7 million worth of renovations, as well as plans to construct a 2,400-square-foot guesthouse and a three-story guardhouse.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The problem is that the term premium is a theoretical construct, not something we can easily observe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

For the small areas of solid wall the stone mason would actually construct two parallel walls of cut stone.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Ghaderi says slidkrans is used particularly by healthcare professionals and in youth clinics but adds misinformation still exists emphasising the "need to change social constructs".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Once the selected become official members of the Green Lantern Corps, they can wield their rings to create astronomical constructs.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

People will spend a solid chunk of their lives in hyper-personalized, persistent imaginary constructs, like long-running soap operas or television series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

And yet the world it constructs . . . lowering in pitch and warping as the batteries die, the lesson slowing as though the young man is exhausted, and then it stops.

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

Homes that her grandfather constructed in the city of Matanzas still stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The monument is a line of arches and pillars constructed to resemble the fortress gates of Negatapam - a town in India and the scene of fighting between British and French forces in the 1780s.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The researchers then constructed a device to test the idea with three photons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The zeppelin’s enormous frame was constructed of a lightweight aluminum-copper alloy, covered with more than 300,000 square feet of sealed canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He constructed a cylinder containing a small amount of water, which he heated over a flame.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Rather than constructing the desired quantum states one small piece at a time, their method can perform a wide variety of operations much faster.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Navy are unlikely, given congressional opposition to constructing naval ships overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

He said that principle was essential to "constructing an economy that is fit for the 21st Century".

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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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