built

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NSA Bahrain was built long before Iran possessed the arsenal of precision missiles and drones it has today, and the war revealed its vulnerabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

He settled in Ireland and built a comedy career doing specials unlike what you’d find most young stand-ups doing in America.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit arguing that the facility threatened the sensitive Everglades wetlands and was hastily built without the legally required environmental impact studies.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

This logic mostly undermines the framework that the liability shield was built on.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

We went sledding in the park, built a snowman in the garden, threw snowballs at one another on the way to and from school.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo