How to Use megaproject in a Sentence

megaproject

noun
  • That is how megaprojects go off the rails.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps the megaprojects bill should stop right here, at least for now.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In building a megaproject like this, time is never on our side.
    — Tom Wright, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In terms of urban megaprojects, the numbers could be doable.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Not to worry, the megaprojects bill backers say.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But a federal megaproject may stir up even more trouble.
    — Patrick Sisson, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Tehran also has to say no to megaprojects that devour budgets and ecosystems.
    — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Turkey’s megaprojects have been a source of jobs and revenue for builders, and spurred economic growth.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Climate resilience will not be built through megaprojects and billion-dollar bonds alone.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The megaprojects bill is the parking meter deal and TIF on steroids.
    — Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • There is a megaproject underway that’s not so much breaking new ground, as burrowing beneath it.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Utah is hardly the first Western state to be enticed by a megaproject pipe dream, however far-fetched.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The bill would also ban megaproject incentives from being used by data centers.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • No speculative or half-built megaprojects and planned expansions.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Other votes have sought citizen input on everything from a new airport to a tourist train megaproject to a new brewery.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • But the right course would be to address the Bears matter now — and use the time between today and year’s end to get the rest of the megaprojects bill right.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And those interests are to bring in as many petrodollars as possible for the kingdom not to fall into a budget deficit or see its megaprojects fail.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
  • But as the prices of basic goods soar while the state spends heavily on flashy megaprojects, grumblings of discontent here are growing louder.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Trump has been snapping up opportunities to control — and in some cases quash — megaprojects in his hometown.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Millions and millions of property tax dollars have been diverted to feed those megaprojects, at the expense of the schools and teachers.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The roster speaks volumes about the sources of capital for megaprojects at what seems to be a late stage in a lengthy bull market in commercial real estate.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The megaprojects failed to garner enough support from lawmakers on Saturday, and was taken off the table.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • But the emergence of the first renderings signify a small milestone for a megaproject that’s been hard to visualize until this point.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Elon Musk could be the one to make talks of a transatlantic tunnel become a reality, according to a megaproject expert.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Citadel won approval in around 18 months—for a megaproject that would have taken years to be green-lighted in virtually any other major metro.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That's how a megaproject like the Susitna-Watana Dam could even be contemplated in my backyard river.
    — Mike Wood, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Aug. 2017
  • For decades, Queens has been told to wait its turn while Manhattan got the megaprojects, the federal grants, and the shiny infrastructure.
    — Peter Peyser, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Property values in the areas surrounding megaprojects will increase and property tax revenues along with them.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The $5 billion development megaproject in downtown Atlanta is starting to bear fruit.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Reviving a megaproject that has lain mostly dormant since September 2020 is no small feat.
    — Washington Post, 25 May 2021

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