JERRY-BUILDING Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

jerry-building

verb

present participle of jerry-build

as in rigging (up)

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If the individual begins throwing up, or if symptoms get worse or last for over an hour – call 911.

— Chad Murphy, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2026
Still, cooking is the first and only thing that’s given Tiedemann purpose, so the better option seems to be throwing up a middle finger and getting back to work.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026

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The human question As far as human spaceflight goes, SpaceX has been narrowly focused on retrofitting Starship for a multibillion-dollar NASA contact to ferry government astronauts to the moon amid a space race with China.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Budgeting for that gap now will be far cheaper than retrofitting governance after an agent goes rogue or a breach makes the decision for you.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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After combining to win just 60 games over the past three seasons, good health could see the team residing in the nation’s capital crack 40 wins for the first time since 2018.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
The new system takes the concept in a different direction by combining hydrogen production with chemical synthesis.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

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Burke, who was reconstructing fossil gharials for his doctoral project, noted the subtle differences between the unidentified species and the false gharial, and started to work on an up-to-date description in December 2023.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
The next challenge is to apply these controllable 3D light fields to increasingly complex systems and develop better ways of reconstructing the resulting electron motion.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

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Across product organizations, Microsoft executives have been devising ways to charge customers based on usage to better reflect rising costs.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026

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