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manufactories

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plural of manufactory

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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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Only 1,221 entered over the same period, through subsidiaries, factories or representative offices, the fewest on record outside the Covid-19 pandemic.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Yet without fully mature local ecosystems, Southeast Asian factories source inputs from China to keep production running.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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The wars caused massive destruction of religious and civic buildings, mills and mines, housing, crops, herds and transport infrastructure, damaging prosperity and forcing some people to move or starve.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
The team modeled energy demand profiles for 34 ammonia synthesis plants, nine steel mills, 47 oil refineries, and nearly 1,000 manufacturing sites using process heat.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

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Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026
According to the Clean Label report, wet or air-dried products are preferable to dry food for lower lead exposure, while avoiding foods with plants in the top 10 ingredients may lower pesticide exposure.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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