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Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, which build the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and had been designing a new generation of destroyers, are now designing the new Trump-class battleship.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

We had been designing rings, and Langely had a secret flight planned for mid-March to ask my father’s permission in person.

From New York Times • May 12, 2020

That’s certainly not enough to afford a Frank Lloyd Wright house — at least the ones he had been designing at the time, which would run about $650,000 in today’s dollars.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2019

“The company had lost its way,” said Mr. Kozik, who had been designing toys for Kidrobot before being hired by its new owner, a toy company called the National Entertainment Collectibles Association.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2017

Then she confessed that for a fortnight past she had been designing in water colors a series of menu cards for the wedding feast.

From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred