scaffold
noun
a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the construction, repair, or decoration of a building.
scaffolded
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past participleof scaffold.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof scaffold.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
scaffoldnouna temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the construction, repair, or decoration of a building.
Example Sentences
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It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Their work proved that the new scaffolded cryo-EM approach can illuminate how drug molecules bind with and inhibit cellular proteins like KRAS, and could help guide the development of more effective drugs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Looming as we approached the nexus of Olive and Stewart, Seattle’s version of Times Square, was an enormous, elevated sign featuring a scaffolded Great Northern Railway mountain goat atop a showy slogan: “EMPIRE BUILDER.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
If New England’s stable infrastructure — owned, coached and quarterbacked by the same people for nearly two decades — scaffolded its dynasty, then its draft management sustained it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
From the unfinished, scaffolded building a figure emerged, came running.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
