scaffold
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“You’ve got the native language as a scaffold for these young kids who are just beginning to acquire complex concepts, who are just beginning to understand the world around them,” Pompa said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The researchers also tested whether the extracellular vesicles could produce similar effects without the biomaterial scaffold.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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
I ask Winkworth's colleague Phil Williams if the scaffold tubes are too hot to handle.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The principle of the scaffold was that loose bricks and mortar always were at the level of the top of the wall being built.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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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
"But especially in the psychedelic field, completely new scaffolds are incredibly rare. And this is the discovery of a brand-new therapeutic scaffold."
From Science Daily ● May 14, 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
It was a very old building, the kind with bathwater that still had to be stored in drums, windows without glass, and privy scaffolds made of bricks.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
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Elissa and Johnnie say their "forever home" - now wrapped in scaffolding and stripped back to bare breeze block - has become a nightmare.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The local artist said part of the problem was that he had been working from a scaffolding platform which obstructed his view, meaning he didn't get the "full perspective".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was removed in June on the orders of Cooper but the area where it was taken down remains covered by a white tarpaulin and scaffolding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The rest of the Kennedy Center’s name is blocked by scaffolding that is wrapped in a white tarp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Brian and Lori said we didn’t have the ladders and scaffolding we needed.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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