Example Sentences

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In 2024, he proposed a data-center and energy project in Alberta that is still in the preconstruction phase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

However, if it becomes clear during the preconstruction work that the timeline for final completion isn’t feasible, the city can pull the plug, officials said Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

Nearly a dozen companies are working on wind farm preconstruction off the New Jersey coastline.

From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2023

In a 2020 paper, they reported that water was mixing there at 89 times the preconstruction rate.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2022

In a system where every position proceeds from a scientific preconstruction, a power acting exclusively in length, would be magnetism by virtue of our own definition of the term.

From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor