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Recent Examples of scaffold
These could be made into such things as scaffolds for tissue engineering, or used to stem bleeding or to absorb oil spills.
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Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
The interweaving crime-movie and possible alien-abduction threads vining around the empty skeleton at this movie’s center never quite cohere, and on-camera interviews with any number of the criminal teens offer no emotional scaffold to grab onto.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
These scaffolds are erected on skyscrapers, hundreds of feet high, and encased in fabric safety nets forming colorful cocoons of green, blue and purple.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Developers can describe features or behaviors, and the system generates scaffolds or complete implementations.
—Paul Kovalenko, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
The interweaving crime-movie and possible alien-abduction threads vining around the empty skeleton at this movie’s center never quite cohere, and on-camera interviews with any number of the criminal teens offer no emotional scaffold to grab onto.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
These scaffolds are erected on skyscrapers, hundreds of feet high, and encased in fabric safety nets forming colorful cocoons of green, blue and purple.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Developers can describe features or behaviors, and the system generates scaffolds or complete implementations.
—Paul Kovalenko, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scaffold
Noun
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These complexities have come at the expense of the consumer, who now pays an average of $88 per month to watch sports on streaming platforms versus $64 per month for those not watching sports, according to tech research firm InterDigital.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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The bridge incorporates five viewing platforms fused with a curved structure, so pedestrians can pause and enjoy the scenic and panoramic view of the Singapore skyline.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In 2022, just days before his 18th birthday, Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming found himself atop an Olympic podium with a gold medal hanging around his neck.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
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With each loss, with each mistake Glenn makes — on the field, at the podium — questions about his ability to do the impossible (bring the Jets back from the abyss) intensify.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Scaffold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaffold. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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