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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of construct.

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Examples

  • The contraption I had my camera attached to was a clampod, a makeshift monopod constructed from a laboratory ring stand (with a ring visible at its base) and a couple of clamps.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • The reason that the schools have been constructed is because the local school districts were willing to increase the property taxes to a tremendously high figure -- in my opinion, almost to the point of diminishing returns in order to sustain these schools.

    Bob Bowdon: What Can't be Said Today Bob Bowdon 2010

  • Last year's Eighth Floor was not even a story, just a series of Christmas-themed tableaux, and those were constructed from the remains of previous years 'tableaux from actual stories -- if you'd been to the Eighth Floor a lot you could spot the dwarves from Snow White as elves, and the plum pudding from Mary Poppins, and like that.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway porphyrin 2009

  • It lead to what appeared to be a cabin, again constructed from petrified wood -- a motley assortment of branches and sheets.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • It is a complex idea, constructed from the idea of a horse and the idea of a horn, both of which are born from our impressions of horses and horns.

    Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Müvbox is constructed from a standard 20-foot shipping container and has been retrofitted with a modern kitchen and seating for 28 people.

    Müvbox Fast Food Shipping Container Restaurant | Inhabitat 2009

  • It was nice because his character was more “good” than the rest of us so it provided a suitable foil (no one else really minds when I have a Muppaphone constructed from the heads of our dead opponents).

    Second “Empire of Ashes” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related 2009

  • A grand public staircase could be constructed from the overlook down to Maine.

    The emerging Southwest: Transformation underway Derek Kravitz 2010

  • A grand public staircase could be constructed from the overlook down to Maine.

    The emerging Southwest: Transformation underway Derek Kravitz 2010

  • It lead to what appeared to be a cabin, again constructed from petrified wood -- a motley assortment of branches and sheets.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

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