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manufactories

noun

plural of manufactory

as in factories

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods recent years have seen a tremendous growth in manufactories all along the river

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Most typically involve a single building, but the Cheney complex is rare because scores of original factories and worker homes have been saved.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.

— Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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Most movies are paired with local live acts to fill the air as the crowd mills in or to keep the party going long after the projector shuts off.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
The Cotton Communicator™ Software enables cotton merchants/co-ops and mills to exchange information related to the buying and selling of cotton.

— Catherine Salfino, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026

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As many as 27 hydropower plants were damaged in Nepal, with about 12 all but destroyed, according to Dix.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Gary’s residents are also footing the bill for the utility to keep coal plants online that aren’t providing much, if any, energy and small modular nuclear reactors for data centers that may or may not be developed.

— Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

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