CONSTRUCTS Synonyms: 149 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of construct

as in devises

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination he managed to construct a theory that fits all the facts

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to form by putting together parts or materials constructed a hydroelectric dam across the river

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constructs

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noun

plural of construct

as in abstractions

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Zvyagintsev meticulously constructs a window into the life of Gleb, the CEO of a Russian transport company who occupies a sleek modern home with his wife and son, but there’s a clear disconnect between them. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 Dyrholm will star as a woman who is unable to acknowledge and access her own feelings and constructs intimacy by stealing objects from people instead of getting close to them. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 By placing a fashion executive from PVH next to a global marketing executive from Coca-Cola and an independent visual artist, the house constructs a network of perspectives capable of sorting through complex challenges. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Around these expanding buffers, SANDO constructs a safety corridor, a chain of connected, obstacle-free regions of three-dimensional space. — New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026 Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages. — Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026 The film instead passively constructs Tessa’s world as a colorblind one, in which racial difference simply never comes up. — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026 QCi constructs photonic systems that operate at ambient temperature. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 However, environmental and geopolitical concerns remain high as China constructs a massive 60-gigawatt dam downstream in Medog County. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026

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Determined to win her back, Ralph devises a crazy plan involving kidnapping the former child star of his favorite Christmas movie.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Her path crosses with that of Inocência, an enslaved Black woman who possesses healing knowledge, knows the land, and devises her own strategies of resistance.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

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In order to be helpful, Muse constantly builds extensive dossiers of users and their desires, social relationships, and messaging behaviors, TIME’s Harry Booth reported this month.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
For all its tests, the company builds realistic simulated environments, red teams these environments itself and with third parties to see whether they can be escaped, and monitors what agents do.

— Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of builds

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Preliterate people don’t focus on such abstractions as taking a periodic population census and recording it for posterity.

— James Coffin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
One of Lichtenstein’s takes on Monet in this show features the cathedral buried beneath a matrix of black dots set atop a deep blue background, in what may count as an allusion to Ad Reinhardt’s blue-on-blue abstractions of the ’50s.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of abstractions

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Silfab is a Canadian company that manufactures and assembles solar panels.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026
Simpler battery packs lower costs The company buys battery cells and assembles its own packs rather than manufacturing the cells themselves.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of assembles

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Their writing would help concepts including gains from trade and the division of labor to take root in the popular imagination.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
And the expansion of the IRL Economy, just like the AI buildout, will require substantial capital to build and modernize venues, bring successful concepts to new markets and create entirely new offerings.

— Davis Noell, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of concepts

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Yaga concocts one entertainingly heady brew, thanks to its beguiling mood and fearless cast.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
The new film continues the story of the conclusion of Holland’s third Spider-Man film, where Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) concocts a spell to make everyone forget Peter as a way to save the multiverse.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of concocts

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Perhaps that is why the voucher program’s $26 billion plan rejects accountability and erects barriers for meaningful participation of public school students.

— Denise Forte, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026
King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

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