Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective In the process of being built or of building.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding.
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We crossed the 180° meridian on Tuesday, 20th inst, hence had a double Tuesday or a day of about 47 hours long -- This ship Dakota is said to be the largest Cargo Capacity of any vessel afloat at this date -- though larger are abuilding -- It has 28.000 tons capacity --
Letter from Young John Allen to Tsoong Kia Tsing,February 27, 1906 2008
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And Given that NIST agrees: Free fall is impossible in abuilding crumpling or collapsingnaturallydue to structural resistance (Shyam Sunder, NIST);
OpEdNews - Diary: 9/11: NIST Provides the Proof 9-11 was an Inside Job / False Flag Attack. 2009
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Sure, they had charisma, but even they never routinely drew the excited crowds Obama attracts wherever he goes, and this campaign's abuilding, my friend.
Three reasons Obama will beat McCain; charisma, charisma, charisma 2008
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His own tomb was abuilding, as was fit and proper; his mother had put it next to Alexander the Great, but he had relocated it in a small, unobtrusive corner.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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His own tomb was abuilding, as was fit and proper; his mother had put it next to Alexander the Great, but he had relocated it in a small, unobtrusive corner.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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It cost eight millions; it was twenty-four years abuilding, and the founder himself saw it furnished and enjoyed it twelve years after, and carried his bones himself thither to be buried.
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It had been abuilding since 1949, and from 1962 on, employed as many as 150 workers at one time.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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It had been abuilding since 1949, and from 1962 on, employed as many as 150 workers at one time.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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It had been abuilding since 1949, and from 1962 on, employed as many as 150 workers at one time.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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