as in to construct
to form by putting together parts or materials
he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit
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Recent Examples of build
Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
The lack of scoring efficiency allowed Penn State to stay close early, with the Bruins and Lions trading leads eight times during the back-and-forth battle.
UCLA’s zone defense eventually started earning stops, allowing the Bruins to build a lead.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Clint Davis, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
The Italian shipyard’s new fully custom build, Diamond Binta, made its world debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in September, and the brand is now unveiling a closer look at the vessel.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2025
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What's new: The city and the Stock Show spent $40 million to upgrade the livestock barns and build a new show arena as part of a plan to refurbish and update the Will Rogers Memorial Center, which was built in 1948.
—Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
The lack of scoring efficiency allowed Penn State to stay close early, with the Bruins and Lions trading leads eight times during the back-and-forth battle.
UCLA’s zone defense eventually started earning stops, allowing the Bruins to build a lead.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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His favorites are colorful builds with moving parts — like the interactive Super Mario kits and the challenging Technic cars — but he’s also built a few Lego flowers for my wife to put in her office.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
The Italian shipyard’s new fully custom build, Diamond Binta, made its world debut at the Monaco Yacht Show in September, and the brand is now unveiling a closer look at the vessel.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2025
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Topanga Ranch Motel: Also owned by the state parks department, the Topanga Ranch Motel was constructed in 1929 by newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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The project will be constructed in phases on 2,000 of the 3,100 available acres south and west of the airport runways originally made available for a solar farm.Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
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If nothing else, this eighth installment will offer yet another chance to see Cruise nearly obliterate his aging but somehow ageless physique performing some insanely dangerous new stunt — a morbid spectacle that, like his famous mug, never grows old.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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The Flight Risk actor, 52, showed off his fit physique on Instagram in the early-morning hours of Thursday, Dec. 26, after celebrating Christmas with his family the previous day.Jen Juneau, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Then there’s the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design, a collection of art from around the world—including Spain, Morocco, Central Asia, India, and parts of Southeast Asia—that was assembled by Doris Duke over the course of 60 years.Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
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In other countries where RCV is the norm, parties assemble slates of candidates to appeal to different constituencies and knit together a winning coalition.Jasmine Gripper, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
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With Abrams as an occasional intermediary, Pelletier and Wolff hammered out a basic story shape.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Editor’s picks Pelly’s writing has long helped shape discourse about these bigger questions.Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2025
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Ash trickled down from a gray sky and the smell of smoke lingered in the air Thursday as Angelenos made phone calls to loved ones.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Effect of Technology on Hunting Opportunity The context for Idaho’s HAT working group is that as technology makes hunters more effective at killing animals, hunting opportunity diminishes.Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Pistons kept their distance with a 28-22 final frame to earn their fifth straight win.C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Choose from a light gray, dark gray or tan finish and get a bed frame that will last you years.Christopher Murray, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
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AGNs are extremely bright due to the turbulence created in accretion disks by the incredible gravitational influence of supermassive black holes with masses equivalent to millions or billions of suns.Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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The goal remains for Warner Bros Motion Picture Group to create PVOD and pay-one window opportunities for Max.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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The decision upheld a reform introduced in Florida in 2023 in the form of Senate Bill 2-A, which prohibited the state's long-standing practice of assigning benefits to another party for those holding insurance policies issued after January 1 of that same year.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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The main event awaits on Friday in the form of December’s nonfarm payrolls report.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Build.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/build. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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