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
Ministers say the funding includes £5m for self and custom-build projects to help make it more affordable for people to build their own homes.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2021
In order to comply, Yahoo had to custom-build spy software.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2016
“When we covered this company before, we viewed it as a unique custom-building software machine that had extraordinary alignment of software engineering, sales, and a pricing model for continuous transformational outcomes,” the analysts wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
One way to bring down costs would be to develop ready-to-install components, rather than custom-building each one.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2023
The firm thrived by borrowing to finance its work of custom-building homes.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, said the President, no one could just walk into a department store and buy a second front: such a move took months of custom-building.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ken Tam, manager of Videocom Computer, which specialises in custom-built PCs, said business has halved since price rises began in September.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
He hired an architect to price out a custom-built home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
By carefully arranging tiny particles of silver into custom-built structures, they created and stabilized a previously elusive state of matter that had existed only in theoretical models.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
And we were glad to have them around at first—especially when they presented our women with a gift to surpass all gifts: a custom-built domestic servant.
From Backlash by Winston K. Marks
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