as in mills
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods
the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs
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Recent Examples of factories
Some factories are tucked into cities, next to residential buildings and restaurants.
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Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Drawn by its booming steel mills and factories, Black Americans were moving to industrial Pittsburgh in record numbers at the start of the 20th century.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
In an average year, Tucson residents and companies demand about 100,000 acre-feet of water for showers, golf courses, data centers and factories.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Tesla has been developing a humanoid robot called Optimus, designed to work in factories as well as homes.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
To seize this moment, scaling up must be treated as a discipline, supported by coherent, forward-thinking policies that bolster American factories and workers.
—Shilpan Amin, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
The 30-second spot cites a 2023 New York Times investigation into migrant children trafficked and exploited to work grueling jobs at factories, construction sites, farms and other dangerous work places.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Workers at one of the factories will grind the meat and divide it into one- or two-pound packages.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
Building can unfold faster in factories than on site, where builders face unpredictable weather.
—Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Drawn by its booming steel mills and factories, Black Americans were moving to industrial Pittsburgh in record numbers at the start of the 20th century.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
In an average year, Tucson residents and companies demand about 100,000 acre-feet of water for showers, golf courses, data centers and factories.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Tesla has been developing a humanoid robot called Optimus, designed to work in factories as well as homes.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
To seize this moment, scaling up must be treated as a discipline, supported by coherent, forward-thinking policies that bolster American factories and workers.
—Shilpan Amin, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
The 30-second spot cites a 2023 New York Times investigation into migrant children trafficked and exploited to work grueling jobs at factories, construction sites, farms and other dangerous work places.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Workers at one of the factories will grind the meat and divide it into one- or two-pound packages.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
Building can unfold faster in factories than on site, where builders face unpredictable weather.
—Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factories
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Salvador Samba, Brazil’s signature percussive genre, was born in the sugarcane mills of Salvador, the heart of Black culture in the country.—
Carolina Abbott Galvão,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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Causes of despair Despite successful interventions to shut down pill mills – clinics that prescribe opioids without a valid medical reason – and expand access to prevention and treatment, drug overdoses remain a leading cause of death.—
Kelly Chen,
The Conversation,
4 Nov. 2025
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Several tech players are already constructing private energy plants for their own use as part of their data center buildouts, so there is nothing radical about Democrats insisting on tying approvals for data centers to bearing the cost of enhancing the public grid.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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There, a group of KPMG staffers followed and sometimes interjected their own thoughts on the building, while workers fastened the last screws on light bulbs and organized plants strewn around the office.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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The nonprofit institute offers in-person, online or hybrid training and certification courses to train and certify RV service technicians to work at dealerships or own their own local shops or mobile RV service companies.—
Gidget Fuentes,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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When a Miami weapons buyer for a powerful Haitian gang inquired why the group needed the guns he had been asked to illegally purchase from South Florida shops, the response was simple.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Factories.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factories. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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