as in standing
rising straight up
a lone tree remained erect after the terrible tornado had passed
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as in to raise
to fix in an upright position
the tribes of the Pacific Northwest erected totem poles in front of their dwellings
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as in to build
to form by putting together parts or materials
we'd better erect some sort of shelter before these woods are in total darkness
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Recent Examples of erect
Melissa Harris, Artforum, 10 July 2025
Construction crews pour concrete and erect steel faster every year, yet one stubborn line item keeps projects over budget: paperwork.
—Shuangling Yin, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2025
More than three years after breaking ground, the developer behind the Riverwalk project is finally in a financial position to erect its first residential and retail buildings on the expansive Mission Valley property that follows Friars Road west of Fashion Valley.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The guardians stand erect, with arms crossed at their chests and relief-like musculature superimposed on their bodies.
—Melissa Harris, Artforum, 10 July 2025
Construction crews pour concrete and erect steel faster every year, yet one stubborn line item keeps projects over budget: paperwork.
—Shuangling Yin, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Verb
And so, because of the possibility of bodily or olfactory injury, personnel in the Facilities Management Division elected to erect temporary gates around the trees.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2025
More than three years after breaking ground, the developer behind the Riverwalk project is finally in a financial position to erect its first residential and retail buildings on the expansive Mission Valley property that follows Friars Road west of Fashion Valley.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for erect
Adjective
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When the episode premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the speech got a standing ovation.—
Claire McNear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Nov. 2025
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Our standing height is not great.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Someone who is unable to work in mainstream punditry because his face no longer fits, but is determined to raise standards among those who do as an outside agitator.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Yet Tapestry—the parent company of Coach—said Gen Z now accounts for roughly 35% of its new customers, helping the brand beat Wall Street expectations and raise its full-year forecast.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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In August, The Guardian said the Israeli Defense Forces' Unit 8200 had built a system in Microsoft's Azure cloud for tracking Palestinians' phone calls as part of the country's invasion of Gaza, leading Microsoft to investigate the newspaper's assertions.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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To build workplaces that are not just more efficient, but more human.—
Kelly Jones,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) provides thrust vectoring capability for X-BAT’s vertical takeoff and landing maneuverability.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Located in its app, the Watch tab now features a feed of vertical video stories, though they are editorially curated rather than algorithmically fed, at least for now.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The ghosts of the Nazi past reared their heads when The Secret Floor premiered at the Goldener Spatz in Gera, Germany.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The surge in demand is already driving up energy prices and fueling political backlash as sprawling data centers turn into election-season flashpoints in the communities where they are being constructed.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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To demonstrate the practical potential of this material, the researchers constructed a liquid metal battery (LMB) using the metallic gel as an electrode.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Set it upright on a flat, hard surface, such as concrete or pavers.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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But for those of us who have to remain upright, why not try light therapy?—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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As the migrants boarded, a man hoisted one of the passengers in the air, a fussing 8-month-old baby whose face was flushed red from the heat.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Then, a crane hoisted them up and onto a concrete foundation.—
Addie Costello,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Erect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erect. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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