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manufactories

noun

plural of manufactory

as in factories

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods recent years have seen a tremendous growth in manufactories all along the river

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Russia’s constant attacks on factories, energy supply systems and the railways means that steel supply to the Ukrainian armed forces is also being degraded.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
Tariffs are far from the only reason for the lost of manufacturing jobs, and factories have cut workers for decades with or without them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026

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To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Instead of seeing these requirements as simple administrative tasks, leaders from both organizations encourage brands and mills to concentrate on basic data and on end-to-end transparency.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

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Longtime strawberry farmer Rod Koda has rows of plants on his California farm that are still producing fruit well after the harvest would typically end.

— Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Rivera said nearly all of the country’s water treatment plants had reported some degree of infrastructure damage, although the full extent remained under evaluation.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

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