scaffolding
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But it also made visible, for a moment, the financial scaffolding behind the plate.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Raw scaffolding stretches through the space, surrounding an evolving sculptural installation that feels as though it is still in the process of arriving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Pictures on social media showed the building covered in scaffolding with flames emerging from the roof.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
He sought to provide authentic ways for children to express themselves and developed scaffolding to better harness and understand children’s musical development.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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