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
• 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
• But last year, the megaproject’s price tag was reevaluated to more than $3 billion for the first phase alone—roughly double the original estimate for the entire endeavor.
  — Thomas Lewton, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024