manufacture
noun
the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale.
were manufacturing
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past progressiveof manufacture.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 2009, Swiss pharma giant Novartis operated seven sites in the U.K., two of which were manufacturing sites, and employed 4,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
But Dr Weiss said that the discovery - that whales were manufacturing tools, "and that these objects were being used in a way never before reported in marine mammals, was incredibly exciting".
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
Not only was New York City the financial, corporate, and media capital of the world, but both the city and upstate New York were manufacturing powerhouses.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2023
White realized that the conspirators were not only erasing evidence—they were manufacturing it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
