construction
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He’s also concerned about how construction will affect his business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Panattoni, one of the largest privately held developers in the world, is ramping up construction nationwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, low-income workers in communities surrounding data centers reported that the new construction was making housing unaffordable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Work on the soaring Goldin Finance 117 began in 2008, but construction stalled as its developer fell into debt and the tower remains unfinished 18 years on.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I’ve got hungry people down here, people without any clean water to drink, and you want to send construction crews?”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
"We now see that end of these monumental constructions coincides with the disappearance of the population that built them," Seersholm said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
And many of the new constructions are far removed from traditional Cycladic architecture.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Family is like a tapestry, sewn together in a constant story despite different constructions and experiences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Catherine Telford Keogh’s “Cradlers” at Socrates raises steel and aluminum high into the air on poles, intersecting constructions that look like fragments from a spaceship’s hull with fossiliferous limestone blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing construction
Engineering - Introductory
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Engineering - Middle School
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