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Recent Examples of prefabricate
Walmart comes next, and then a few plants making building materials and prefabricated housing, several social service organizations and the county government.
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Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive A century before modular homes were prefabricated in factories, people could order a kit home through the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog or from a company such as Aladdin Homes, which had a factory in North Portland’s Kenton neighborhood.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
Recently, Nury found one of Prouvé’s prefabricated 6 x 6 houses, from 1944, which will remain disassembled in a warehouse until, someday, a client chooses it for a special event.
—Kurt Soller David Chow, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Walmart comes next, and then a few plants making building materials and prefabricated housing, several social service organizations, and the county government.
—Lydia Depillis, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
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Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive A century before modular homes were prefabricated in factories, people could order a kit home through the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog or from a company such as Aladdin Homes, which had a factory in North Portland’s Kenton neighborhood.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
Recently, Nury found one of Prouvé’s prefabricated 6 x 6 houses, from 1944, which will remain disassembled in a warehouse until, someday, a client chooses it for a special event.
—Kurt Soller David Chow, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Walmart comes next, and then a few plants making building materials and prefabricated housing, several social service organizations, and the county government.
—Lydia Depillis, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prefabricate
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The project will be constructed in phases on 2,000 of the 3,100 available acres south and west of the airport runways originally made available for a solar farm.Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
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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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Calmer but dry conditions will build Thursday with some moisture arriving this weekend.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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Arthur wanted to build a house with his own two hands, as his grandfather had done.Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
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The judge fabricated the facts, and the law, no different than the other New York judicial and prosecutorial witch hunts.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Its projects include fabricating new missiles, installing thousands of miles of fibre-optic transmission lines, building new computer centers at Air Force bases, and refurbishing the underground chambers where missileers control weapons.Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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Most recently occupied by a menswear store that shuttered in 2020, this building erected in 1860 needed to be stripped down in its entirety, including the roof, as lead was discovered there during the early stages of the renovation.Lily Templeton, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
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Photo of the billboard Tampa Sports erected back in 2018 to lure an outdoor game.Jessica Golden, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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Hypersonic warheads can maneuver mid-flight and are designed to be harder to intercept than their conventional counterparts.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Plus, it’s designed to feel like your natural lubrication.Sarah Felbin, SELF, 6 Jan. 2025
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Nylon and polyester, both synthetic fibers, now help to make up almost 70 percent of our clothing.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Namely, your gluteus minimus and medius, the two muscles that make up your side-butt.Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
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Their designs are so intricate—with transistors measured in single-digit nanometers—that currently, only the Taiwanese company TSMC manufactures these top-of-the-line chips.Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
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The company manufactures premium sweets that are typically sold at the airport, department stores, railway stations and other locations with high pedestrian traffic.Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Prefabricate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefabricate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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