custom-build
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of custom-build
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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The company will further press its one-platform-fits-all strategy with a new AI tool that it says will custom-build ad inventory based around cultural events that interest advertisers but aren’t on YouTube’s calendar.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Andy Detwiler lost his arms as a child and learned how to use his feet to drive a tractor, feed animals and custom-build farm equipment.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
It had taken Sheriff nearly six years to custom-build the four-wheeled drum set, a painstaking process filled with fits and setbacks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022
The sled whispers through the snow, broken only by the panting of eight dogs working in harmony, pulling Paige Drobny on her custom-build race-sled, built by her husband and fellow racer, Cody Strathe.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018
In order to comply, Yahoo had to custom-build spy software.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2016
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