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 brain places those pieces onto the scaffolds of event scripts. Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025 Worse things happen under scaffolds than in broad daylight. Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025 Psychologists had formally proposed that such scaffolds existed in the 1970s. Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025 Eventually, the polymer scaffold dissolves and the cells are washed away with a special solution. Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025 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 24 Apr. 2025.

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