constructs 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of construct
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constructs

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noun

plural of construct

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of constructs
Verb
Zvyagintsev meticulously constructs a window into the life of Gleb, the CEO of a Russian transport company who occupies a sleek modern home with his wife and son, but there’s a clear disconnect between them. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Dyrholm will star as a woman who is unable to acknowledge and access her own feelings and constructs intimacy by stealing objects from people instead of getting close to them. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 By placing a fashion executive from PVH next to a global marketing executive from Coca-Cola and an independent visual artist, the house constructs a network of perspectives capable of sorting through complex challenges. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Around these expanding buffers, SANDO constructs a safety corridor, a chain of connected, obstacle-free regions of three-dimensional space. — New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026 Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages. — Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026 The film instead passively constructs Tessa’s world as a colorblind one, in which racial difference simply never comes up. — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026 QCi constructs photonic systems that operate at ambient temperature. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 However, environmental and geopolitical concerns remain high as China constructs a massive 60-gigawatt dam downstream in Medog County. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constructs
Verb
  • Determined to win her back, Ralph devises a crazy plan involving kidnapping the former child star of his favorite Christmas movie.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Her path crosses with that of Inocência, an enslaved Black woman who possesses healing knowledge, knows the land, and devises her own strategies of resistance.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Working with her frequent collaborator Evan Wright, McDoom builds her arrangements from nylon-string guitar and voice.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026
  • And that number is bound to rise in the coming years, as humanity builds out more and more megaconstellations in Earth orbit.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Soon afterward, Dzubas began making paintings that looked almost nothing like the colorful abstractions associated with his name.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Preliterate people don’t focus on such abstractions as taking a periodic population census and recording it for posterity.
    — James Coffin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The train invents derailment; the airplane, the crash; the nuclear plant, the meltdown.
    — Shahnaz Bashir, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Every civilization invents an image that carries its aspirations.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As this pretty, chocolate-box parlor assembles itself magically around him, Irwin takes his place in a big leather chair.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Silfab is a Canadian company that manufactures and assembles solar panels.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • And capable of coming up with concepts that have never been heard before.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • For nearly a decade, the concepts submitted for consideration turned out to be some of the most popular spots aired during the NFL extravaganza.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Yaga concocts one entertainingly heady brew, thanks to its beguiling mood and fearless cast.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The new film continues the story of the conclusion of Holland’s third Spider-Man film, where Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) concocts a spell to make everyone forget Peter as a way to save the multiverse.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Perhaps that is why the voucher program’s $26 billion plan rejects accountability and erects barriers for meaningful participation of public school students.
    — Denise Forte, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026
  • King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

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