JERRY-BUILDING Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

jerry-building

verb

present participle of jerry-build

as in rigging (up)

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After a couple of rounds of throwing up and an evaluation by the doctor, Coop is okay, but the whole thing puts a fright into the crew, and especially into Joy.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 July 2026
Tyler began throwing up and lost function on the entire left side of his body.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026

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As for rebuilding America’s shipbuilding capability, the idea is to effectively reindustrialize rather than rely on imports of ships and hardware from abroad.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
An assessment last year by the World Bank said rebuilding Syria is expected to cost about $216 billion.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2026

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Their competitors spend those same years retrofitting and playing catch-up while early movers capture new markets.

— Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
But manufacturers already producing turbines for other uses are retrofitting now to produce wind energy, even if less efficiently.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026

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Gel pencil eyeliner Think of a gel pencil as the middle ground between a traditional pencil and a liquid liner, combining convenience with staying power.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 24 July 2026
The companies believe combining autonomous maritime systems with modular air defence capabilities could provide navies and security agencies with greater operational flexibility while reducing overall costs.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026

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Instead of stopping there, the model reportedly built its own computer vision pipeline to extract geometry from the image’s raw pixels before reconstructing the part.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
Hugging Face said its security team and AI agents detected and stopped the intrusion, then began containing the breach and reconstructing what happened.

— Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

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The next few years will show whether the space industry really leaves disposable satellites behind and starts building them to be caught and repaired, or simply gets neater about throwing them away, designing them to burn up on the way down.

— Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Lotus Sport even helped win an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain, designing the radical carbon-fiber bicycle that Chris Boardman pedaled to victory in 1992.

— Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 22 July 2026

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Sarah Sherman Samuel is known for devising furniture worthy of an art show, and the Lulu and Georgia Hamilton sideboard is no exception.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 July 2026
Ten years on, after devising the victorious Trojan Horse gambit, Ulysses attempts to return to Ithaca and the pining Penelope, whose palace has been overrun with scheming suitors seeking her hand.

— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

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