jerry-building

verb

present participle of jerry-build
as in rigging (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jerry-building
  1. throwing up
  2. rebuilding
  3. retrofitting
  4. combining
  5. reconstructing
  6. designing
  7. devising
Verb
  • Still, cooking is the first and only thing that’s given Tiedemann purpose, so the better option seems to be throwing up a middle finger and getting back to work.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The next day, JT showed a snippet of his viral cameo that had everyone and their mother throwing up their phones in glee.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of throwing up
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  • For the 23-year-old from China, the win over Keys was an impressive feat of composure, that will go a long way toward rebuilding both her confidence and her ranking.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Because solutions are designed with model-agnostic architecture, organizations can adopt future AI innovations without rebuilding their underlying systems.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of rebuilding
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  • Of course, all this depends on Spock not dying in the process of entering and retrofitting the ion pod.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Now, that model is shifting to retrofitting these facilities for robotic food prep and kitchen design optimized for robots rather than chefs.
    — George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of retrofitting
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  • The calculation refers to nominal total returns, combining coupon income and changes in the bond's market price.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • By combining central load absorption, multi-axis flexibility, and active retraction control, the Robotrax system offers plant engineers and system integrators a reliable path toward maximizing robot uptime and reducing total operational costs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of combining
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  • Any finance leader who has spent a weekend reconstructing why a number moved understands the difference between those two positions.
    — David Zwick, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • In its breathless finale, Curry races through the mansion reconstructing every murder, flinging himself through doors and corridors while maintaining the verbal precision of a stage actor performing at double speed.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of reconstructing
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  • Broadcom has been one of the major winners of the AI boom, designing custom chips for companies including Google, Meta and OpenAI.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
  • For this reason, Triola’s belief that a machine’s aggregation acumen presents chefs with an innovative tool for designing recipes strikes me as misguided.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of designing
Verb
  • Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of devising
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