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a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods the new factory will create hundreds of much-needed jobs

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Recent Examples on the Web This process involved factory workers carrying heavy buckets filled with the candy mixture, who then walked backwards along a conveyor belt full of trays. Aaron Mahnke, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024 The film follows a lovelorn factory worker looking for romance in all the wrong the places. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024 What’s so perplexing to liberals about this shift is that many of the people who left the Democratic Party are doing well for themselves; these cities are full of small-business owners, factory workers and retirees with pensions getting by under a Democratic president. Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2024 Before the pandemic it was hit by a damaging minimum-wage and safety scandal at supplier factories in Leicester, England. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for factory 

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“Factory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factory. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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