custom-make
Americanverb (used with object)
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“We actually custom-make devices for patients’ individual anatomy,” Breedlove said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2020
DS Smith is developing technology to custom-make boxes for Amazon that will help reduce large gaps in packages that increase freight costs.
From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2018
Many came on the arm of designers, who custom-make their looks for the occasion, often in some sort of accordance with the exhibition theme.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2016
So, the only thing we manufacturer in the U.S. are now simple items, canvas bags that we can bring in, it's a basic color, it's easily available, I do not have to custom-make for myself.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2015
For more than 40 years, Arte de Mexico has been unobtrusively helping designers all over the world find or custom-make exquisite pieces of lighting, furnishings and décor that speak of Old World elegance and craftsmanship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2014
Muñoz recalled the moment Rodrigo’s team reached out to request a custom-made guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Her dramatic arrival at the Serpentine Gallery in 1994 in a custom-made black silk evening dress by designer Christina Stambolian became an iconic pop-culture moment.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Romero started a business online selling custom-made souvenir concert tickets for $5 a pop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
A 16-year-old boy in Canada put a 10-second voice message from his crush into an AI platform called Character.AI to create a custom-made bot that uses the girl’s voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
In this place there is no ship but the sleek racing yacht sailing out of the bay, blown by a custom-made zephyr, sending it off to points even more exotic than this.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
I love custom-making something for someone, and I don’t love having 12 of the same thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
Other members of his research team said later they had taken only "baby steps" toward the goal of starting with a digital file and custom-making an organism.
From Reuters ● May 26, 2010
The ready formation of custom-making groups in early society must have been greatly helped by the easy divisions of that society.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Walter Bagehot
On the contrary, man might be described as a custom-making animal with more justice than by many of the short descriptions.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Walter Bagehot
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