jerry-build

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Verb
  • As the story goes, Young threw up three separate times in his first workout.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This was the exact type of game that must leave USC fans throwing up their hands over Lincoln Riley.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The eventual compromise saw the government move his house, brick-by-brick, and rebuild it in the opposite river bank.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Exterior walls of the tunnel are being rebuilt to fix drainage issues.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These 5,000 package cars will be retrofitted by June 2027.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The jet, when retrofitted, will be utilized as Air Force One.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This weekend, many of those same people and former Broncos teammates will reassemble in Denver, as the organization honors Thomas with his Ring of Fame induction at the 10-year reunion of the franchise’s Super Bowl 50 team.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • With elements of social realism and light absurdism, the film balances comedy and drama as Santiago attempts to reassemble his life.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The team was able to reconstruct a complete, fleshy profile of Edmontosaurus annectens.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Oaklawn Avenue Bridge, which was just reconstructed for the I-77 north expansion, may be partially demolished and rebuilt.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Beat until combined, scraping bowl as needed.
    Jenavieve Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The macroscopes featured in the exhibit and companion book combine high-quality datasets, computational power, and data visualization techniques to provide a big-picture view of subjects that are often too large and too complex to comprehend from an individual perspective.
    Big Think, Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As of June 2024, plans to redevelop the building have seemingly been halted by the state’s governor and remain to be determined, NBC affiliate WJAR reported.
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Climate Central, a research group focused on the effects of climate change, hired Smith to redevelop the database, which includes records back to 1980.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The British military historian John Keegan revealed the hazards of this kind of planning in his anatomy of the Schlieffen Plan, the German strategy for fighting a two-front continental war that was devised, in 1905, by the chief of the army’s general staff, Alfred von Schlieffen.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Anime giant Crunchyroll has partnered with Luminopia, a digital health company that devises new treatments for significant neuro-visual disorders, for a new VR treatment for kids with lazy eye (amblyopia).
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Jerry-build.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jerry-build. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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