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construction

[kuhn-struhk-shuhn] / kənˈstrʌk ʃən /




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He labors seven days a week as a construction worker, but goes out dancing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

He doesn’t understand a lot about his job, but he understands construction of a ballroom.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Now in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Also on the U.S. target list are Iran’s buried stockpiles of fissile material and its construction site beneath Pickaxe Mountain, where it later hopes to enrich the material.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The walls around us are cluttered with construction paper posters, marker-drawn announcements for spring sports tryouts, and Black History Month events.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day