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 The arena area featured two tall elevated scaffolds, connected by a short skybridge, each wallpapered with numerous large screens. Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024 The delicacy and way these amazing drivers focus the soundstage and provide a scaffold for the music is stunning. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 Students who are multilingual learners and/or have special needs wanting access to the same curriculum and expectations with appropriate scaffolds and supports should find that in AF schools. Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024 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 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 Dec. 2024.

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