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scaffold

[skaf-uhld, -ohld] / ˈskæf əld, -oʊld /


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First, a supportive scaffold layer within the developing spine started to deteriorate.

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Alexandra Friedman, a Seattle-based friendship and relationship coach, thinks it’s OK to use AI to scaffold an uncomfortable conversation but not to lean on it throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Physically and spiritually, San Juan Capistrano is centered around its mission, one of 21 established by the Catholic Church under the Spanish crown in the 18th and 19th centuries, forming the scaffold of modern-day California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

I ask Winkworth's colleague Phil Williams if the scaffold tubes are too hot to handle.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

She stood at the king’s side on a wooden scaffold raised above the pit.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Some of the work is physically risky and will require crews being lowered in uspended scaffolds known as swing stages used by window cleaners.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Such scaffolds can lead to faster, cheaper vaccine development, which otherwise can take many years and many millions of dollars.

From Salon May 20, 2026

For example, in the civilian context, when construction workers fall off scaffolds and can’t walk until receiving surgery and physical therapy, their employers have to provide them workers’ compensation.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

Bamboo scaffolds have "intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns", the bureau's spokesperson Terence Lam was quoted as saying.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

He was so awed by the size of the crowd, he didn’t even notice the “camera pit” at the foot of the stage, or the camera crews perched on high scaffolds, their movie cameras whirring.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

The building’s façade is heavily scaffolded and there is no roof on either of its two "wings".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2024

Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 28, 2023

Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Workers removed Trump's name from the building in June, but scaffolding and tarps have remained ever since.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

When he steps off the scaffolding, two dozen fans swarm him.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

The new laws are only the scaffolding of change.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Sierra glanced down from the scaffolding to where Manny the Domino King stood with his arms crossed over his chest.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older




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