construct
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At least one of Tomlin’s former players is astonished that he was able to construct a sprawling “Minecraft” community in the limited spare time enjoyed by an NFL head coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Once inside the brain, glucosamine can enter biochemical pathways that construct complex sugar structures and attach them to proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 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
The Philadelphia Phillies are challenging more than a century of baseball orthodoxy around how to construct a lineup—and it’s helping them charge into the playoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The world is in chaos in “Exit Party,” and so are the constructs of reality and linear time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She didn’t want laws and social constructs to be fairer, less dangerous, more fulfilling for women as a concept; she wanted it for you, for me, for the lady in the back row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once the selected become official members of the Green Lantern Corps, they can wield their rings to create astronomical constructs.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
"What you see them do is navigate a world with the constructs of capitalism," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
If astrophysics developed, the existence of stars could eventually be deduced from the principles of physics, but they would be theoretical constructs only.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The port was constructed as the terminus of a planned $25 billion economic corridor, with roads, rail and an oil pipeline linking Lamu to landlocked South Sudan and Ethiopia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The researchers then constructed a device to test the idea with three photons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Berkeley’s founding in 1868 was California’s bid for civic and economic legitimacy, initially constructed on the federal government’s support of land-grant universities that taught agriculture and mining.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
His book is carefully constructed to give his account, as well as pay tribute to his sister's life as the 30th anniversary of her death approaches.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
An immediate consequence, therefore, which is the subject of Chapter 4, was a radical transformation in the understanding of how the Earth is constructed: the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
Rather than constructing the desired quantum states one small piece at a time, their method can perform a wide variety of operations much faster.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
It started with a sudden, strong gust of air, says Pemba Dundu Tamang, whose team of about 30 was constructing the tunnel's concrete lining.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The really relevant experimental details were those which might provide clues in constructing molecular models.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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