Thesaurus results for FACILITIES

facilities

noun

plural of facility

as in institutions

a structure that is designed and built for a particular purpose the city is known for its outstanding medical facilities

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Recent Examples of facilities An action sports area is also planned with trampolines, climbing walls and indoor skate facilities. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Novo is investing billions in manufacturing facilities and, executives said this week, the company aims to be able to increase the number of patients on its GLP-1 drugs tenfold by 2030. — Annika Kim Constantino,elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026 The residential reentry house, as such facilities are also known, provides services such as career counseling in a supervised environment, a DOJ source told People. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 Florida created adult congregate living facilities, now ALFs, in 1975. — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 The Seminoles opened a massive new football center in 2025, part of an extraordinary facilities arms race that has transformed college football. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 Hospitals are overwhelmed by wounded patients, while shortages of medicine, fuel and staff force some facilities to close or turn away pregnant women and other patients. — Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Officials in Poland, Germany and Denmark have in recent weeks accused Russia of involvement in drone incursions, sabotage, arson, surveillance of defense facilities and planning to use a drone carrying explosives to attack an airport. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026 The bills prohibits agents, officers and employees of DHS or those acting under authority of the agency from conducting operations in child care facilities, school bus stops and playgrounds. — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Lula, meanwhile, has argued for a more prominent role of the federal government in the fight against organized crime as well as greater coordination between governmental institutions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Harvard and its peers are tax-exempt charitable institutions.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of institutions

Noun

Sarah Patton, a Compass agent familiar with the buildings, says that a few years ago, when hundreds of units were being marketed downtown, some buildings were making deals, but that’s rare.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026
The wars caused massive destruction of religious and civic buildings, mills and mines, housing, crops, herds and transport infrastructure, damaging prosperity and forcing some people to move or starve.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of buildings

Noun

Alan Duarte, 38, grew up in Complexo do Alemao, one of the two sprawling complexes of favelas targeted in Rio’s lethal police operation last year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
When a photon strikes one of these complexes, its electromagnetic energy is absorbed and boosts an electron in the complex into an excited state.

— Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of complexes

Noun

The cells will undergo electrical, thermal, and safety testing at Mercedes-Benz facilities and specialized external institutes.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
In truth, the German economy has shown signs of recovery since the start of this year, leading economic research institutes to revise their full year growth forecasts upward.

— , CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of institutes

Noun

Restaurants and other food-service establishments should check their freezers and make sure the product is not served to customers, the USDA said.

— Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
When Russians discovered karaoke, thousands of venues sprang up, from cheap sushi joints to lavish establishments where an orchestra and backup singers accompanied anyone willing to step onto the stage and, for a few minutes, feel like a star.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of establishments

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Through paintings, prints, and installations, Endaya’s work examines the social struggles in her native Philippines, from gender and labor inequality to migration and globalization, to name a few.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Current findings are based on hands-on prototyping, designer feedback and use in objects including bags, lighting, jewelry, home décor, installations and retail-window displays.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026

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