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built to fit the needs or requirements of a particular person
a custom-built home The car is custom-built.
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Recent Examples of custom-built
The Athena team custom-built their own emergency stop system that can cut power to the robot almost instantly, either through physical controls or a wireless remote.
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New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
The Pixel 10 series uses Google’s homegrown Tensor G5 processor, custom-built for AI applications.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026
But scientists have only tuned into this music of the spheres for about a decade, thanks to sophisticated observatories that were custom-built to pick up these reverberations—gravitational waves—which ripple otherwise unnoticed through the fabric of spacetime.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
The company's installers are trained and certified, and every product is custom-built to fit the specific dimensions of each opening.
—Community's Choice Awards, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
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New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
The Pixel 10 series uses Google’s homegrown Tensor G5 processor, custom-built for AI applications.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026
But scientists have only tuned into this music of the spheres for about a decade, thanks to sophisticated observatories that were custom-built to pick up these reverberations—gravitational waves—which ripple otherwise unnoticed through the fabric of spacetime.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
The company's installers are trained and certified, and every product is custom-built to fit the specific dimensions of each opening.
—Community's Choice Awards, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for custom-built
Adjective
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Turner, 36, was shown in a custom, blue, double-breasted jacket with matching pants, shirt and tie by Ferragamo.—
Maria Sherman,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2026
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Of the Deck’s major competitors, only the $600 Asus ROG Xbox Ally (and its AMD Ryzen Z2 A processor, which is very similar to the Deck’s semi-custom AMD chip) is significantly cheaper than the Steam Deck.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2026
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But excitement over the joke reinforced the idea and Artistic Tile decided to actually offer the pasta prints through the company’s Tailored To program, which offers customized designs.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
29 May 2026
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Powered by customized versions of various AI models, including Alibaba’s Qwen series, M1 is capable of gauging facial expressions and starting a conversation if someone appears lonely and can also read books to children.—
Yue Wang,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Supporters of the project argue that maintaining that advantage will require continued investment in specialized facilities, which are often too expensive for individual organizations to build on their own.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
31 May 2026
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That reality has shaped the honey badger into one of evolution’s most specialized little predators.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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“Custom-built.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/custom-built. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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