erects

present tense third-person singular of erect
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for erects
Verb
  • For Little, this raises even more questions.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In July, a geologist warned that an ongoing cluster of smaller earthquakes near the Nicobar Islands could signal a volcanic eruption in the Andaman Sea, which raises fears of another tsunami.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Every step toward understanding strengthens confidence, sparks creativity, and builds resilience.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The new launch also builds on Deepal’s global expansion strategy, which includes entering over 100 markets across Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Start pricing stair chair lifts or small elevators for your lovely large home.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • DeVries falls to his knees, in an apparent effort to let Ray win, but Ray lifts his buddy up and drops to the ground, sacrificing himself.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Holland constructs a fragmented, kaleidoscopic portrait that blends real episodes with Kafka’s fiction and his strange afterlife as both cultural prophet and commercial brand.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To facilitate such a mix, Alameddine constructs The True True Story of Raja the Gullible like an accordion, bracketing it with two short chapters set in 2023 and using the space between them to take his narrator back and forth in time.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The problem really has to do with mentality, the fact that even after securing its first trophy in over a decade, the idea of being challengers, the Spursy curse still rears its head.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This was likely due to the injuries the team sustained, which could be an issue that rears its ugly head again.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When cast onto a flat mold and dried out, the microgel assembles into a paper or film, depending on the final thickness, that is strong yet flexible.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The screams, the reason everyone assembles, when the screams come, after a few collective inhales and exhales and a moment to gather one’s thoughts, the screams come like long guttural howls.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Matthew hoists the Cup on the cover of the standard edition of NHL 26 — the first player to do so since Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks on NHL 16.
    Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • After the rescuer hooks the hikers to the line, the helicopter crew hoists all three from the area.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The company’s Enterprise Data Cloud creates a unified data storage system across Pure Storage arrays and includes modular non-disruptive upgrades that extend hardware life.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In these homes, the conflict between budgeting and feeding kids well creates huge psychological stress for parents, which can lead to anxiety and depression, fueling the vicious cycle of stress and unhealthy eating, Beresin said.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Erects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erects. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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