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Recent Examples of construction The second removal was in 2017 during construction to add a new scoreboard and locker rooms in the west end zone. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025 Gijsje Ribbens, the founder and creative director of RiRa, agrees that this style is all about a return to organic forms and construction, all with a humorous bent. Emily Johnson, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2025 The city’s vacancy rate has fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, and new housing construction is at its weakest pace in a decade, the report added. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025 In design and construction, clients returning or recommending us speaks louder than any survey. Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for construction
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Noun
  • Real Madrid are stepping up plans towards a radical change in their ownership structure — one that would allow external investors to purchase stakes in the club for the very first time.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That all larger structures and processes that occur between those structures, including all chemical reactions, don’t require anything more than those fundamental laws and constituents.
    Big Think, Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What surprised Chong was how Wei’s interpretation added unexpected depth to the character.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • For example, being able to reproduce data and always staying open to new interpretations.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some scientists question how useful predictions made by AI will be, if the AI can’t provide an explanation for them.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There were innumerable explanations of varying degrees of plausibility, but that made the image interesting to him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An illustration of the grassroots mentality that drives the 41-year-old Barham came on one weekend in late August when Aquarium headlined a show in Memphis at the 400-capacity Hi-Tone on a Friday, then made the eight-hour, 550-mile drive to Waco, Texas, overnight.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As is often the case with everything surrounding Swift’s name, the T-shirt featuring a graphic illustration of otters went viral on social media.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Turning to the future, Ryst addressed the growing role of artificial intelligence in YouTube’s ecosystem, especially in areas like dubbing and translation.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Qwen and Rokid translation platforms can automatically detect the language being spoken, with Qwen supporting 10 (Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish) and Rokid supporting six.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Construction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/construction. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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