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Who managed to bring forth, upon that unworthy scaffold, a tale about the state of the nation, about the place of the black peoples within that nation, and his own place within both. — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, "Stormzy at Glastonbury: King Michael Wears His Crown," 2 July 2019 His model suggested that condensin II molecules assembled into a helical scaffold, as in the famous Leonardo staircase found in the Chambord Castle in France. — Quanta Magazine, "How Cells Pack Tangled DNA Into Neat Chromosomes," 22 Feb. 2018 On Saturday, a man fell to his death after attaching a banner protesting the extradition bill to a scaffold at Pacific Place mall, near the legislature. — Wenxin Fan, WSJ, "Hong Kong Marchers Flood Streets Over Extradition Bill," 16 June 2019 The scaffold then becomes a permanent addition to the architecture of mathematics. — Quanta Magazine, "The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture," 7 May 2019 The swing-stage scaffold malfunctioned or broke, ending up vertical rather than horizontal. — Liam Ford, chicagotribune.com, "2 workers rescued after high-rise scaffold breaks on Far North Side," 7 June 2019 In preparation for today's rollout, Scaled Composites spent the past weeks disassembling a three-story scaffold that surrounded the aircraft during construction. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "Paul Allen's Enormous Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft Rolls Out of Hangar for First Time," 31 May 2017 And carpentry means being comfortable on ladders, scaffolds, sloping rooftops, and scissors lifts, and crawling through attics and crawl spaces. — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "How to Become a Skilled Tradesperson," 13 Mar. 2019 Patient Andemariam Beyene died after the implant, a polymer scaffold seeded with his own stem cells, failed. — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, "University declines to sanction doctor who referred patient for deadly transplant," 13 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'scaffold.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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