Thesaurus results for FACTORIES

factories

noun

plural of factory

as in mills

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs

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Recent Examples of factories Only 1,221 entered over the same period, through subsidiaries, factories or representative offices, the fewest on record outside the Covid-19 pandemic. — Anniek Bao,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026 Yet without fully mature local ecosystems, Southeast Asian factories source inputs from China to keep production running. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 Power plants generate electricity, grids deliver it, and homes, factories and businesses consume it. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026 Region Hoosiers have forged the steel, built the machinery, moved the freight and powered the factories that made modern life possible. — Jeff Danielson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026 The 80-kilometer stretch between Abu Dhabi and Dubai — a barren expanse of farms, factories, warehouses, and not much else — is now drawing multibillion-dollar property projects. — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Compared with other recycling initiatives, Weavabel said the loop is fully integrated across warehouses, factories and distribution centers, giving brands a scalable path to extend the life of their packaging and reduce reliance on virgin plastic. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026 Russia's Defense Ministry said the military overnight struck arms factories, telecommunications and logistical facilities in Kyiv and the Odesa region. — Hanna Arhirova, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026 Russia’s Defense Ministry said the military overnight struck arms factories, telecommunications and logistical facilities in Kyiv and the Odesa region. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

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Noun

To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Instead of seeing these requirements as simple administrative tasks, leaders from both organizations encourage brands and mills to concentrate on basic data and on end-to-end transparency.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of mills

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Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026
According to the Clean Label report, wet or air-dried products are preferable to dry food for lower lead exposure, while avoiding foods with plants in the top 10 ingredients may lower pesticide exposure.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of plants

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On those days, Shawn would go out into the neighborhood, to the shops and hawker centers, looking for the man.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
The looting targeted the TPLF administration office, the regional police headquarters and some shops, Filmon said Sunday.

— Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026