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Recent Examples of factory
The grand opening ceremony for the Dallas factory was held in March 2025.
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Lauren Carpenter, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Part of the vetting process is ensuring that the contacts own the factory, weeding out brokers or middlemen.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 18 Apr. 2025
Short answer: because most of it is coming directly from factories in China, skipping the usual retail markups.
—Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 10 Apr. 2025
More than 40% of its factories are outside of East Asia, including nine in Honduras and seven apiece in Canada, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Carpenter, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Part of the vetting process is ensuring that the contacts own the factory, weeding out brokers or middlemen.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 18 Apr. 2025
Short answer: because most of it is coming directly from factories in China, skipping the usual retail markups.
—Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 10 Apr. 2025
More than 40% of its factories are outside of East Asia, including nine in Honduras and seven apiece in Canada, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factory
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Across fifteen of the world’s largest economies, from the steel mills of India to the data centres of the United States, business leaders are backing the energy transition.—
María Mendiluce,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Under a new owner, the steel mill closed permanently in 2012.—
Timothy B. Wheeler,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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His research team, in partnership with associate professor Sakiko Okumoto at Texas A&M University, hopes to study plant mechanisms in sorghum and capitalize on its innate ability to inhibit nitrogen loss, a process known as biological nitrification inhibition (BNI).—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Popular alpine plants include Primula, Dianthus, and thyme.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Missing the season’s climax through injury is hardly ideal, taking him out of the shop window just as the market begins to ramp up, and so United must hope that any prospective buyers have already seen enough from his mini-revival at Villa Park.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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The owner of a popular ice-cream shop in Madrid began giving ice cream away to people passing by.—
Barry Hatton,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2025
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For the third consecutive year, the workshop maintained its partnership with the Morelia Film Festival, hosting a Mexican filmmaker among the participants.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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During the April 16 workshop, Kneuvean, the CFO that joined in 2024, told commissioners that both the city and the county used reserve dollars to pay for capital projects during eight of the past 10 budget years.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Factory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factory. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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