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Overwhelmed by the number of ailing birds, the wildlife center has been erecting pup tents to use as pens, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2024

He will be interred on the land he had bought to build his family a home - and where over the last week, the government has been erecting a house for his widow.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2024

It has been erecting signs and writing to MPs in an effort to attract more local interest, particularly from the younger generation.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2014

Tough security and elegant architectural design are not easily joined, and the United States has been erecting some foreboding embassies in recent years.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

The magnificent new house which the Chief of Police has been erecting, ostensibly with the money left him by a rich aunt of whom nobody ever heard, seems to lend colour to these— THE KING.

From King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays by Dell, Floyd