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verb

past tense of prefabricate
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Adjective
  • The speed at which these homes can be constructed, often taking advantage of local labor, make prefab housing a sound solution for housing crises around the country.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
  • The future is beautifully designed There’s a bit of a prefab vibe to certain aspects of Woven City, particularly the brutalist residential buildings.
    TIm Stevens, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Then with five seconds to go before intermission, Watts found the back of the net as Notre Dame constructed an 8-7 lead at the break.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
  • The venue was a casually magnificent stone building, constructed in the fifteenth century as a Dominican convent, on a promontory overlooking a sparkling bay.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • The batteries inside utility-scale storage facilities are built to far stricter standards, sited under the most rigorous fire code in the country, and monitored 24/7.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 May 2026
  • In our case, the water tank for the toilet flush was built into this metal support frame.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • Some of those numbers may be completely fabricated, while others may belong to real people whose caller ID information is being misused.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Specifically, Sosa Cardona fabricated foreign law enforcement reports and other documents as false backup for his clients' asylum claims, prosecutors said.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • At least two memorials have been erected in Williams’ honor, including one at the site of the crash and another at her school.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • The statue, which includes a Banksy signature on its base, was erected overnight on Wednesday.
    Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 2 May 2026
Verb
  • Fox even had its chief technology officer address the assembled at its upfront presentation.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • This reduction in mechanical complexity allows the system to be manufactured and assembled using standard US factory infrastructure and existing supply chains, which is intended to decrease both costs and deployment timelines.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • That land was also home to a portion of the Citizens Gas manufactured gas plant, leaving behind layers of coal tar and hazardous waste.
    Michelle de la Uz, New York Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • The latest, published in Nature today, strengthens the case that LAP1-B is an early cosmic puzzle piece packed with material freshly manufactured by dying Population III stars.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Originally designed as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests and a call to keep armed police officers out of the Metro system, the agency deployed roughly three hundred ambassadors to stations and transit vehicles in the city’s core.
    Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • The Dodgers dropped outfielder Kyle Tucker to sixth in the lineup Friday, in a batting order Roberts said was designed to combat Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
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“Prefabricated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefabricated. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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