constructions

plural of construction

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Recent Examples of constructions The clouds were made in the Netherlands by a firm with a history of building steel ship hulls that now specializes in building complex steel constructions like the clouds using digital data. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 Most adults’ feet are marginally different sizes (by around 2mm), while men and women generally require different soccer-cleat constructions. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 The shoes took one of warm weather’s simplest constructions and moved it firmly out of casual territory and into a more polished, front-row ready silhouette. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 Another glorious experiment is his Lotus Chorus Workshop, in which prompts challenge the user to try out all kinds of strange sentence constructions, like a literary CrossFit box. — Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 The answer lies in constructions from theoretical computer science called error-correcting codes, which are intimately intertwined with high-dimensional sphere packing. — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026 The new constructions added nearly 3,000 beds to the state’s capacity for those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Nearby there’s a vitrine of maquettes showing different stitch constructions, from blind welt to Norwegian welting. — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 Over time, these hasty constructions gave way to sites that still define New York, like the vast Reflecting Absence memorial at the World Trade Center site, a garden in northern Manhattan, and a memorial on the shores of Staten Island. — Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constructions
Noun
  • The main structures at the front (the spa, gym, studio, and reception) are made of natural stone with bougainvillea tumbling down their sides, set between shallow pools of water, echoing the floating effect of the resort above the mangroves.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Of that amount, $400 million is going toward measurement technologies, including cryo-electron tomography, which can reveal near-atomic structures inside cells, and microscopy systems intended to image millions to billions of cells in living tissue.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • State officials have not offered any explanations about what went wrong.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Jones said the team believes its drilling results raise questions about some previous explanations of the site as a natural rock formation.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The more exaggerated interpretations, with oversized collars that swallow the chin or heavy embellishment, are the ones most at risk of looking dated once the search curve bends.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The networks have employed officiating experts to walk viewers through confusing rule interpretations for years.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Look closely, and the intricate illustrations reveal themselves; take a few steps back, and the pattern reads softer and almost atmospheric.
    — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Let Books Be illustrations by Loveis Wise, Hyesu Lee, and Mikey Burton.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Constructions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constructions. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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