scaffold
Example Sentences
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Is the scaffolding of college football still a shambolic mess?
Enormous business investment in the data centers and other scaffolding needed for the artificial intelligence race also helps explain the economy’s growth.
In one desert station Systra showed reporters, workers on scaffolding have raised an imposing geometric ceiling over six open-air tracks.
From Barron's
They placed the receptor into a nanodisc, a tiny disc-shaped section of membrane held in solution by a scaffold protein wrapped around its edge.
From Science Daily
But ultimately, that’s just scaffolding to tell a beautiful, improvised story.”
From Los Angeles Times
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