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as in devises
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination
he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts
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as in builds
to form by putting together parts or materials
constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river
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Recent Examples of constructs
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
As Victor constructs his lab and assembles the Creature, the various stages of its creation are meticulously portrayed.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Jan. 2026
By shuffling these more personal images with his own photographs of their rooms—draperies, windows, unmade beds, a shower stall—Xu constructs a fascinating if confounding new reality, a stage set destined to be struck.
—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
The department plans and constructs new freeways, additional lanes and other improvements in the Phoenix area as part of the Regional Transportation Plan for the Maricopa County region.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2025
The movie's story revolves around a feud that develops between Dano's Eli and Day-Lewis' Daniel as Daniel's company constructs large-scale oil pipelines in Eli's hometown.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Under the Navy’s modular construction plan, Electric Boat builds the submarines’ central cylindrical hull sections, while Newport News constructs the bow and stern modules.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
And Dacus, with slow-burning lyricism and diary-fragment songwriting, constructs entire emotional geographies connected by faith, heartbreak, memory, and grief.
—Gerrick Kennedy, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
Life Time has its own development arm, started in 1998, that constructs its health and fitness facilities from the ground up or repurposes existing properties.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
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As The Late Show constructs its swan song, Colbert is thinking longitudinally.
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Tiffany Bendayan, a chef and baker in Miami, devises different ways to make the table a space where her daughters—Emily and Sofia—feel comfortable sharing just about anything.—
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Odysseus, the Ithacan warrior who is as celebrated for craftiness as Achilles is for brute strength, devises a clever ruse in which the Greeks place a giant wooden horse outside Troy’s walls and pretend to sail away.—
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The company says this principle guided the development of Adam-U Ultra, its latest humanoid system, which builds on the architecture introduced with the earlier Adam-U platform.—
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Perhaps the panel will be starstruck when Skubal’s side builds a case for him as an all-time great.—
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Figures press against one another geographically, and against the polite abstractions of mid-century modernism.—
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The paintings are serious works of deliberate construction which read satisfactorily as abstractions not unrelated to the work of Caio Fonseca.—
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Man-su, wanting an accurate sense of his competition, invents a fake job opportunity and puts out a call for applicants.—
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That said, if Stacey can continue to show up as GNA invents new reasons to exist every season, the women could have shown up to the company break-room party that Stacey called a grand opening.—
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Nvidia primarily designs its chips in California and largely manufactures and assembles them in Asia.—
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As Victor constructs his lab and assembles the Creature, the various stages of its creation are meticulously portrayed.—
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Gone were the days of elaborate concepts, old-timey characters, and aspirations toward modern classical composition.—
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The concepts making their debut range from Kwame Onwuachi’s take on Caribbean cuisine in Las Vegas to Francesco Martucci bringing his pizza prowess to fine dining in Miami—and everything in between, encompassing a wide variety of flavors, heritages, and more.—
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The administration concocts a legal rationale for a foreign policy objective.—
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Executive pastry chef Jess Robertson, Ian’s wife, concocts desserts ranging from $4 oatmeal cream pies to $100 banana splits.—
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The Pitt’s 15-episode season, simple premise, empathetic performances, and weekly release schedule, combined with a focus on ruthlessly realistic competence, erects a new benchmark for what good TV looks like in the streaming era.—
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“Constructs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constructs. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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