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• The total time to build a bridge is often more than five years.
  — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• The original plan was to build a bridge over the busy highway.
  — Natalie Walters, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
• In fact, the Russians had to build a bridge to Crimea just to resupply it.
  — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2022
• If one side wants to build a bridge over a canyon and the other side doesn’t, the smartest course isn’t to build half a bridge that stops in thin air.
  — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• Kiger-Stoffel said her group is working to build a bridge between small towns and cities to end the drug war.
  — Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
• And Poles was asked to explain why, in his view, the sides couldn’t build a bridge toward a compromise.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• Players must build a bridge using 16 planks, cross it to the the other side, and hit the lever to burn their opponents' bridge.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Still, Venita wanted to try to build a bridge with Kathryn and asked Leva for advice.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2022
• My objective is to build a bridge to this entire world that lives in Spanish and that seems to not exist for the rest of society.
  — Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• My objective is to build a bridge to this entire world that lives in Spanish and that seems to not exist for the rest of society.
  — Alejandro MacIel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• In teams, players then had to build a bridge and carry heavy bags of sand over it, eventually even having to move a 2-ton ship.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 21 Feb. 2023
• Consider talking things out with them and attempting to build a bridge.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
• Leaders need to step up and build a bridge with empathy to work toward solutions, Gray said.
  — Nathaniel Cary, USA TODAY, 31 May 2020
• Carmel also will build a bridge at Conner Prairie connecting Carmel and Fishers.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2021
• Dilfer was smart from the beginning to build a bridge between UAB football and Alabama.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Jan. 2023
• For example, mergers and acquisitions can drive a wedge or build a bridge.
  — Lauren Pasquale Bartlett, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• In certain species, if the foraging group needs to cross a gap to another tree branch, the ants will build a bridge out of their own bodies to allow their coworkers to step across.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• To deal with their grief the LeNail family has spearheaded an initiative to build a bridge over the rocky spot where their son died in hopes of preventing other deaths.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2021
• The Warriors are genuine about trying to build a bridge between eras and contend for the long haul, following the San Antonio Spurs blueprint.
  — Patrick Murray, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The tug of war between Fort Lauderdale and Broward County over whether to build a bridge or tunnel for commuter rail might kill plans for a joint government center with a $600 million price tag.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• Consider a hybrid model that can build a bridge from being fully remote to being in person.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• However, an unexpected revelation leads her to use her cookies to build a bridge to the outside world.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2023
• However, an unexpected revelation leads her to use her cookies to build a bridge to the outside world.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2023
• Singer-songwriter Nick Cave discovered that, sometimes, one person has to build a bridge by extending a helping hand.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2021
• Traffic has only built since then, and now town officials are trying to secure financial aid to build a bridge over the Farmington River near town hall.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• Meghan might have been the very addition to the family who could have helped build a bridge to the next generation of Britons – and to the overwhelmingly Black and brown inhabitants of Britain’s Commonwealth nations.
  — Sophia A. Nelson, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• Officials has long plotted to build a bridge over the area and is working to accelerate construction in light of the deterioration.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2021
• But watching two nerds bond over game design and build a bridge between their wildly different worlds is satisfying in a way that political nuance can’t be.
  — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
• The company's mission is to build a bridge between the diverse cultures of Colorado by opening their colorful, inclusive, and welcoming taproom.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2023
• State and local actions, supported by improved treatments, can help build a bridge to vaccinations and more widespread immunity in 2021.
  — Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024