How to Use megaproject in a Sentence

megaproject

noun
  • Are the wheels coming off China's Belt and Road megaproject?
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In building a megaproject like this, time is never on our side.
    Tom Wright, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But not nearly as much as for other types of megaprojects.
    Stephen Wade, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The Battery of the Nation will be an energy megaproject.
    Nathanial Gronewold, Scientific American, 18 June 2020
  • Turkey’s megaprojects have been a source of jobs and revenue for builders, and spurred economic growth.
    The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • If the decision is made to construct the megaproject, the state would get $100 million back from the group for its work, according to Meyer.
    Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Utah is hardly the first Western state to be enticed by a megaproject pipe dream, however far-fetched.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The United Arab Emirates's largest city has long been known for megaprojects, including the world's tallest building and the world's largest indoor ski resort.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • But with the Pacific Park megaproject bringing 17 buildings to the area just east of Barclays, a far taller skyline is inching its way down the avenue.
    Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 17 Mar. 2021
  • That's how a megaproject like the Susitna-Watana Dam could even be contemplated in my backyard river.
    Mike Wood, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Why is this the only remaining megaproject that Gov. Walker has not canceled?
    Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Millions and millions of property tax dollars have been diverted to feed those megaprojects, at the expense of the schools and teachers.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • And those interests are to bring in as many petrodollars as possible for the kingdom not to fall into a budget deficit or see its megaprojects fail.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • The challenge for the crown prince now is to hang tough on handouts, end the government’s decades-old penchant for building megaprojects, and let the private sector lead the economy.
    Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • At more than $41 million per mile, Guadalupe Canyon was the most expensive segment of a $15 billion megaproject that ranked among the costliest in U.S. history.
    Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The roster speaks volumes about the sources of capital for megaprojects at what seems to be a late stage in a lengthy bull market in commercial real estate.
    Peter Grant, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • But as the prices of basic goods soar while the state spends heavily on flashy megaprojects, grumblings of discontent here are growing louder.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • There is a megaproject underway that’s not so much breaking new ground, as burrowing beneath it.
    Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • That’s in addition to the loans China has given to countries in Asia, Africa and Europe to fund infrastructure megaprojects.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Sidewalk Labs’ partnership for a ground-up smart-city neighborhood in the waterfront Quayside district is just one of a number of megaprojects in the works.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 12 June 2018
  • Other votes have sought citizen input on everything from a new airport to a tourist train megaproject to a new brewery.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • There was no mention in Chevron’s statement of any reductions at Tengiz, its over-budget megaproject in Kazakhstan.
    Kevin Crowley, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • Guangdong had plans to have 26 nuclear reactors, in a megaproject overseen by CGN.
    Jill Baker, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Through the courts, CPO has frozen construction of these megaprojects, but in the meantime Guatemala has become one of the world’s most dangerous places to be an environmental activist.
    Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 26 July 2019
  • The megaproject’s cost has ballooned in the last decade, skyrocketing from $4.4 billion to a more than $12 billion estimate made earlier this year.
    Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
  • Reviving a megaproject that has lain mostly dormant since September 2020 is no small feat.
    Washington Post, 25 May 2021
  • Each of the pipeline systems' major components — the mainline valves, bridges, 11 pump stations and Valdez Terminal — were megaprojects in themselves.
    Frank Baker, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 July 2017
  • Headlines from the infamous Boston megaproject the Big Dig, still only a decade old, have long-lasting memories for city governments.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The bridge could ultimately cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and lawmakers had shuttered the megaproject amid the state's multibillion-dollar deficit.
    Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2018
  • But some nuclear advocates feel that placing too many nuclear eggs in a single megaproject’s basket is a bad idea.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Jan. 2023

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