constructing

present participle of construct
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Recent Examples of constructing The company is constructing a similar RF hangar at Ellsworth Air Force Base. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026 By formalizing direct material corridors between Africa’s raw material producers and Asia’s manufacturing hubs, BRICS is effectively constructing an alternative supply network that bypasses traditional Western intermediaries. — Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026 What remains, however, is the builders’ deliberation in constructing emotive and sensory experience. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Interventions can include removing trees and vegetation or constructing barriers to isolate their roots from the house’s foundations and, at the more extreme and expensive end, underpinning the house by pumping concrete beneath the foundations. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026 Nonetheless, the question remains a vital one for those who are responsible for anticipating terrorism threats and constructing both defensive and offensive approaches to them. — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026 Companies are racing into rural America to build not only data centers but facilities for the businesses constructing and servicing them. — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026 But Boulder City’s planning commission voted unanimously against constructing the data center on city land, according to the Current. — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026 Across his three-year tenure, Espada has been hell-bent on constructing his best defensive alignment late in games the Astros are winning. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constructing
Verb
  • Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Secret Service has been building out its drone- and counter-drone programs for years.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But building a criminal case from her accidental overdose death will be an uphill challenge for investigators.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Secrecy laws like Georgia’s shield the public from awareness of the growing costs of pharmacists concocting drugs and the doctors administering the injections.
    — Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The figure concocting this foreign mist of positivity, Sumrall, grunted and frowned through the evening.
    — Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The second pillar allows the main shipyards to focus on assembling submarines, installing equipment and carrying out final tests.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • While the second batch of tortillas is in the oven, start assembling the tacos.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Across both commercial ambient platforms and general-purpose models applied to clinical documentation, the more common failure is under-capture rather than inventing what wasn’t said.
    — Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • For a guy who's such a prominent African-American to try to get in on the conversation by inventing something that never took place.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Abdel Gelil is now sheltering with family in the southwestern city of Taiz, while others are sleeping in the streets or erecting makeshift tents out of plastic.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • During a Sunday appearance on CNN, Johnson rebuffed the idea that lawmakers should rush into an emergency session to consider erecting industry guardrails.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Her research includes designing offshore systems for recovering critical resources from the ocean.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The company’s origin story is that the Saudi Crown Prince steered them into designing something unlike any other car.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand and the two countries can contribute to each other's success, thereby benefiting the wider world.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • But his collaborators helped turn Beck into a cultural product, making videos, shooting photos, providing musical inspiration for samples.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Constructing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constructing. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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