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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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Most typically involve a single building, but the Cheney complex is rare because scores of original factories and worker homes have been saved.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.

— Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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As mills experiment with luxury materials and new technologies, denim is being reimagined with a greater emphasis on tactility, refinement and elevated performance—while still preserving its core identity.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Later that month, the same court ruled to uphold the EPA’s extension of deadlines for steel mills to comply with certain hazardous emissions standards.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

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As many as 27 hydropower plants were damaged in Nepal, with about 12 all but destroyed, according to Dix.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Gary’s residents are also footing the bill for the utility to keep coal plants online that aren’t providing much, if any, energy and small modular nuclear reactors for data centers that may or may not be developed.

— Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

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