structure
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It’s where helping each other gets a little more formal structure.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Thomas Jefferson personally crossed out every mention of the draft name Congress House for the structure and replaced them with Capitol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Under the army's current structure, multiple divisions have had to cover extensive areas that stretch from one state to another.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Family structure should be a standard reporting category alongside race, poverty and disability—not an afterthought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Oh yes, we built the Hominy Ridge School, a modern weatherboarded structure for her comfort and convenience, all with volunteer labor we gladly give.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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These models allowed the team to reproduce the structures in greater detail and develop more accurate explanations for how they formed.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
As a busy parent, Abdur-Rashid says she doesn't always have the time to do everything she'd like with her children, but structures their days to make sure they are always doing an activity.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
L’Enfant was fired in 1792, though, so he did not design the structures that house the executive, the Supreme Court and the Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In addition to the anti-ball playing ordinance, the neighbors were accused of violating an ordinance prohibiting structures on sidewalks or grassy strips next to curbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted?
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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"This policy is not exclusion, it is structured inclusion," said Payne Farai Kupfuwa, founder of the Young Miners Foundation, welcoming the move.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Harriet thinks thought needs to be given to the way the school year is structured.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Three years ago, the FDA placed restrictions on 14 peptides over safety risks, meaning they now fall somewhere between the unregulated world of supplements and the highly structured process of testing new drugs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
It showed that an insurer could cut its capital requirement by two-thirds just by rearranging an investment into structured credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The surest way to attract structured finance business was to accept the assumptions of the structured finance industry.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Prosecutors charged Thola-Duran with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, to receive and transport stolen property interstate, and to commit money laundering, and structuring transactions to avoid federal financial reporting requirements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
But the proposals from Fertitta and Icahn Enterprises both involve structuring the deal in a way that would allow the company to be split up without Vici’s consent, those people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
"It enables rapid structuring of hydrogels in the sub-micrometer range," she says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
He was asked by liana Bouzali, Morgan Stanley’s global head of derivatives, distribution and structuring, how he would construct a hedge-fund portfolio from scratch today.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026
PIH staff has begun to focus on methods of structuring aid and loans so that in the future the sick and indigent will be the primary beneficiaries.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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