construct
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The technology allowed them to construct detailed 3D images without damaging the preserved soft tissue.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Our approach is to pick small goals we aim to prove with flight data and we construct an airframe for that one task."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Spielberg’s vision also reportedly included more than $7 million worth of renovations, as well as plans to construct a 2,400-square-foot guesthouse and a three-story guardhouse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Even if Evans does not get an opportunity to construct Version 2.0 of the Expos, life has been good since McCourt sent him packing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
But science as a system of knowledge is more than a social construct because it is successful, because it fits with reality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Ghaderi says slidkrans is used particularly by healthcare professionals and in youth clinics but adds misinformation still exists emphasising the "need to change social constructs".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Then he secretly purchases a passel of tortoises; constructs a long-handled grabber; leans down from his balcony; extracts Alfie; and, each week, substitutes a slightly heavier impostor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
"What we conclude is that these color qualities don't emerge from additional external constructs such as cultural or learned experiences but reflect the intrinsic properties of the color metric itself," Bujack said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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To qualify, prospective borrowers would need to buy a newly constructed home or a home that never has sold before, such as a commercial building that was converted into condos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The researchers then constructed a device to test the idea with three photons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
The film is yet to reach a wider audience, but its brief trailer offers a glimpse of how Rio constructed this world.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
It is hard to make much of Richard Long’s “Battery Park,” a photograph of a rectangular trench and a sod-covered mound that the artist constructed in Lower Manhattan in 1969.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
I constructed a frame for it from tree branches and wove a mattress cover and pillowcase from the softest grasses I could find.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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In recent years, Pyongyang has beefed up its border fortifications, laying new land mines, constructing new walls and building antitank barriers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
The arts center was founded by acclaimed Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who Florenz said has proposed constructing a permanent building for the coffins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the corridors of Brussels, there's whispered talk of constructing a "special association agreement" with Canada.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
When Joe tired of this, Harry spent a long evening in the company shop constructing a go-cart.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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