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structure

[struhk-cher] / ˈstrʌk tʃər /




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In June, business applications from Gen Z customers grew disproportionately from a year earlier, Bowley said, as did payments to open limited-liability companies, a business structure that separates personal and financial assets and liabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The body reviews countries’ money-laundering regimes and rates them based on their structure and effectiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

These renovations included the addition of a new structure on the grounds that contains a gym and a “recovery center” with a sauna, a cold plunge, a steam room, and a massage table.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Within collagen-rich tissue, electrically charged components attract one another and help hold the structure firmly in place.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

We tend to think of children’s songs as simple, and in some ways, they are in terms of lyrics, structure, and music.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

From the opening title track, we get quiet-to-loud structures with ominous minor-key guitar strumming that explodes on choruses, becoming saturated with distortion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

One particularly interesting example is Hantzsche Wendt space, which involves repeating structures related to hexagonal patterns.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Continued severe funding cuts are pushing refugee support and protection structures towards breaking point in the world’s main displacement situations," it added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Floating dry docks are structures that can be submerged to allow a ship or submarine to enter.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Up on the stage, a raised platform slid out, along with two large wooden structures.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Louis Vuitton, whose canvas bags powered decades of growth, launched the Capucines in 2013, a structured leather handbag named after Paris street where Louis Vuitton opened his first store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Beutner had structured Proposition 28 precisely to prevent this supplanting of funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Professional kitchens demand long hours and enormous physical and emotional energy, and the industry has historically been structured around the expectation that someone else is handling the rest of your life.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Rather than depending primarily on chemistry, the material itself is structured to provide the desired function.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Maria—relieved to be away from the conventions of society and to reunite with her half brother Caspar—tried to embrace this structured, spiritual way of life.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Companies are structuring chip and electricity purchases as future leases rather than owned assets, so the liabilities don’t show up on the balance sheet.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Her way of structuring assets is to move everything to the well spouse.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

She and her husband hold money meetings, and she shared how they think about structuring a family office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Chesney also talked about the structuring of his practices, specifically with having some in the morning and afternoon to expose his players to the heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

But all of this intricate structuring was hidden.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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