project
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Synonyms: Noun
arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game plan, ground plan, master plan, plan, program, road map, scheme, strategy, system
Synonyms: Verb
bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
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an ambitious project to develop the city's waterfrontVerb
He projected next year's costs as being slightly higher than this year's. It's difficult to project funding needs so far into the future. an athlete who projects a positive image to young people We need an actor who projects a tough-guy image.
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Though Belhumeur reveals that the project was inspired by the idea of people coming from a party, through Batmanglij’s lens, the characters seem more like members of a secret society than club kids in search of release. — Vogue, "If You Loved The OA, You'll Love Vince's New Film for Spring ’19," 5 Feb. 2019 The project was subsequently suspended following the change in government. — Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ, "Malaysia’s Securities Commission Fines Deloitte Over Breaches Tied to 1MDB," 31 Jan. 2019 Besides Jimmy Don, Barrett has a slew of other ideas for the project. — Megan Stein, Country Living, "Jimmy Don Holmes Is Getting His Own Store Across from Chip and Joanna's Magnolia Market," 29 Jan. 2019 Gumbs said the project has grown from the legacy of feminist bookstores. — Eric Ginsburg, Teen Vogue, "These Heroes Are Saving Black Feminist Classics by Putting Them on Wheels," 8 Jan. 2019 Nuro, a startup co-founded by two veterans of the Google self-driving car project, is building small, fully autonomous delivery vehicles. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018," 30 Dec. 2018 So that was the very beginning of the way that the project began. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "How Peter Jackson’s team made World War I footage look new," 15 Dec. 2018 Chrome and Opera both rely on the Chromium project as well. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Microsoft Edge embraces open-source Chromium code, plans move to Windows 7, 8, and Macs," 6 Dec. 2018 The project’s scientists have sunk scores of cables studded with thousands of sensors into a cubic quarter-mile of pristine Antarctic ice. — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, "Scientists Hunt for A Seeming Paradox: A Magnet With Only One Pole," 13 Nov. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Blair and Hardaway are just the latest case of people projecting romantic narratives onto strangers for the sake of content. — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, "Stop Live-Tweeting Strangers Flirting," 9 July 2018 The agency issued a one-day excessive-heat warning from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and projected record-high temperatures throughout the county. — Ramona Sentinel, "Brush fires in Dulzura and Alpine; 114 degrees in Ramona," 6 July 2018 Oklahoma City crosses an historic threshold as the first $300M team in salary and projected luxury tax with the Raymond Felton signing. — Charles Curtis, For The Win, "7 vital questions left to answer in the crazy NBA offseason," 5 July 2018 Politico explains: [T]o help defray the budgetary cost of [tax cuts on businesses and individuals], Republicans simultaneously pared tax breaks for workers’ fringe benefits, which is projected to raise around $40 billion over the next decade. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "The GOP Raised Taxes on Churches to Fund Its Giveaway to the Rich," 26 June 2018 Americans are projected to consume about 144 billion gallons of gasoline in 2019, slightly higher than 2018 levels, according to the June 12 Energy Information Administration Short-Term Energy Outlook. — Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, "Trump to Hit Refiners With Biofuels Boost," 26 June 2018 Grimes is slated to be picked sixth overall, while Azubuike is projected 48th overall. — Gary Bedore, kansascity, "Jayhawks watched NBA Draft at Self's house: 'I know they are going to do well'," 25 June 2018 Britain’s self-sufficiency in homegrown food has dropped from 80 percent in 1980 to 62 percent and is projected to fall to 53 percent in 2040. — National Geographic, "When Nature Runs Wild, the Results Can Be Spectacular," 16 June 2018 New Jersey approved $11 billion in tax incentives between 1996 and February 2018 for 1,000 projects that were projected to create and retain more than 200,000 jobs and $34 billion in capital investment, according to the audit. — Kate King, WSJ, "New Jersey Attorney General to Investigate State’s Corporate Tax Credits," 14 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'project.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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