as in mill
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 factory Trump won the state in last year’s election by promising to increase factory jobs. Josh Boak and Alexa St. John, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025 The parts had been expected to incur a 25% tariff, which would have boosted the prices of many cars assembled in American factories. Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025 The yogurt company on Tuesday announced plans to spend at least $1.2 billion opening a million-square-foot factory in Rome, New York. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025 Now, a study published in the journal PLOS One reveals how one site in modern-day Israel functioned as an industrial-scale purple dye factory—the only known facility of its kind. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for factory
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Noun
  • By 2030, the mill could provide $6 million in annual revenue, 16 full-time jobs for administration and mill employees and opportunities for at least 100 farmers in the region, perhaps even as far north as Canada.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 May 2025
  • Then, lock the tool into a vise or hold it still with a clamp and move a mill file along the edge of the blade to sharpen.
    Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Apr. 2025
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  • Learn native plants Peel Compton Foundation will host a free native plant walk from 10 a.m. to noon May 28 at Osage Park in Bentonville.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2025
  • Since then, layoffs have hit Stellantis workers at Warren Truck and other metro Detroit plants; GM workers at Factory Zero in Detroit and Oshawa, Canada; and Volvo-Mack Trucks workers in Virginia, Maryland and my own plant in Pennsylvania.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The four ordinary men who are trapped in the shop with the Doctor just exposit their backstories and then fade completely into the background.
    Ryan Woodrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • There were nearly 100 dead or dying roaches in areas across the taco shop, including more than 50 inside a glue trap on the floor beneath the two door reach-in cooler.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2025
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  • Jeremiah Swint, 25, of Chicago, has been with Male Mogul since June 2024 and offers his expertise in financial literacy through teaching and workshops.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2025
  • Our set department had built a miniature version of then-ABC News anchor Peter Jennings’ desk, and the puppet workshop dressed Kermit in a smart newsy blue blazer.
    Bill Prady, Variety, 3 May 2025

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