prefabricating

verb

present participle of prefabricate
as in building

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prefabricating
  1. building
  2. constructing
  3. erecting
  4. fabricating
  5. assembling
  6. designing
  7. piecing
  8. manufacturing
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  • Patel, whose company is building infrastructure supporting the AI boom, expects AI agents to go mainstream, allowing demand to continue its explosive growth.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But since Oliver Glasner’s appointment, the Austrian has been working with McAtee — who had already spent the summer working on building his physique — on operating in a deeper role.
    — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of building
Verb
  • Better access began not with constructing another clinic or hiring an entirely new workforce, but with examining how existing capacity was used.
    — Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of constructing
Verb
  • In 2011, after the community board and Landmarks greenlit Spence’s erecting a 33-foot-tall glass enclosure to connect its East 91st Street campus with an adjacent building, neighbors took their complaints to press.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, experts generally hold that splitting the shots will decrease vaccination rates for all three diseases by erecting an unnecessary obstacle to the shots.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of erecting
Verb
  • These include cases in which the men were exonerated through DNA or blood evidence and others in which police are accused of fabricating evidence.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2026
  • One of the first bolt-on acquisitions Lucas Philips tried to close was a tiny shop in rural Oregon — a guy who had spent decades fabricating custom interiors for Porsches.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of fabricating
Verb
  • The project will add domestic capacity for assembling, integrating, and testing Wärtsilä engines used for ship propulsion and auxiliary power.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Nvidia is assembling a $500 billion pot from a who’s who of Wall Street firms which will, in turn, backstop OpenAI’s lease of a SoftBank data center in Ohio and help startups rent access to Nvidia’s chips from CoreWeave.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • As early as the 1920s, Coco Chanel patronized Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company, famously designing the costumes for Le Train Bleu, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and premiered in 1924.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Rather than starting with a lot and designing around it, his team and Pininfarina spent about two years creating the house first, down to the furniture, millwork, landscaping, and pool.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of designing
Verb
  • Advertisement Adams, watching from Anna’s side of the revelation, says Anna is piecing it together at nearly the same moment Max is.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
  • According to the band, Ow ∞ is a record about embracing a chaotic present while piecing yourself back together through memories, relationships and the creative process.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 21 July 2026
Definition of piecing
Verb
  • Democrats see an opportunity to win this cycle in once-competitive Iowa, where high costs, health clinic closures, manufacturing job losses and a struggling agricultural economy weigh on voters.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Last January, Badelle received an additional sentence of two years and eight months for manufacturing a deadly weapon by a prisoner, the CDCR said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of manufacturing
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