scaffold

as in platform
a raised flat surface Standing on a scaffold, the workers replaced the broken twelfth-story window.

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Recent Examples of scaffold Right now, Carnes is in the middle of putting together a family cookbook, using an old collection of her aunt’s as a scaffold for her own additions—clipped from copies of Taste of Home, printed out from Allrecipes, or kept on a scrap of paper, then painstakingly typed up. Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024 Now Evans had video showing a man in a red coat climbing a scaffold, pulling out a handgun, and firing twice into the air. Thomas Lake, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024 When that was done, the scaffolds with the fungal mycelia and electrodes were shielded from vibrations and magnetic interference and installed in two robots: a walking one resembling a starfish, and a more standard four-wheeled rover. Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024 Remove all other side branches and cut the central leader back just above the topmost scaffold. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for scaffold 

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“Scaffold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scaffold. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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