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Recent Examples of manufactory
The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland.
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Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland.
—Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
For guests interested in Vienna’s living craft legacy, the hotel can arrange visits to artisans and ateliers around the city, including Bösendorfer pianos and Augarten, a 300-year-old porcelain manufactory.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
These startlingly realistic vessels and objects sculpted or painted (or both) to mimic flora and fauna are seemingly everywhere, whether in the form of vintage pieces, those from traditional manufactories or collections created by a new wave of young makers.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
The designer clothing website Matches now offers a garden’s worth of veggie earthenware from the 139-year-old Portuguese ceramics manufactory Bordallo Pinheiro, including plates that look like ragwort leaves, each affixed with a high relief ladybug.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Handcrafted at Porsche’s watch manufactory in Switzerland, the Chronograph 718 Spyder RS has a sleek, aerodynamic design and precise technical details inspired by its Boxster twin.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
The timepiece continues to be hand-crafted in Porsche’s watch manufactory in Solothurn, Switzerland.
—Chris Gardner For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2025
The very nineteenth-century manufactories that Marx described—with a different worker manually forging, shaping, and finishing metal in a long line to produce a product for sale—were still in operation on the streets of Naples.
—Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
For guests interested in Vienna’s living craft legacy, the hotel can arrange visits to artisans and ateliers around the city, including Bösendorfer pianos and Augarten, a 300-year-old porcelain manufactory.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
These startlingly realistic vessels and objects sculpted or painted (or both) to mimic flora and fauna are seemingly everywhere, whether in the form of vintage pieces, those from traditional manufactories or collections created by a new wave of young makers.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
The designer clothing website Matches now offers a garden’s worth of veggie earthenware from the 139-year-old Portuguese ceramics manufactory Bordallo Pinheiro, including plates that look like ragwort leaves, each affixed with a high relief ladybug.
—Alexa Brazilian Mari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
Handcrafted at Porsche’s watch manufactory in Switzerland, the Chronograph 718 Spyder RS has a sleek, aerodynamic design and precise technical details inspired by its Boxster twin.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manufactory
Noun
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In the spring of 2022, Russian forces trapped a large group of Ukrainians inside a gigantic steel factory called Azovstal, in southern Ukraine.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
16 May 2025
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The cradle-to-gate measurement is an assessment of a partial product life cycle from resource extraction to the factory gate before it is transported to the consumer.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Chicago and Northwest Indiana formed an industrial hub then with plentiful factory jobs in everything from the steel mills behind the buildings making up the city's iconic skyline to car factories assembling the Fords cruising along Lake Shore Drive.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Related Stories For mill use, the largest changes are for China (-500,000 bales to 36.5 million), India (+500,000 to 26.0 million), Bangladesh (+200,000 to 8.5 million), Turkey (+400,000 to 7.5 million), Vietnam (+300,000 to 8.0 million), and Brazil (+200,000 to 3.5 million).—
SJ Guest Editorial,
Sourcing Journal,
16 May 2025
Noun
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There are grasses, mosses, and different types of heather: plants that do well in peat soil, alternating with forested areas.—
Mike Nolan,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2025
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The North River plant is unique in that the roof of the building houses the Riverbank State Park, which has swimming pools, sports fields, a skating rink and restaurant.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Manufactory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manufactory. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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