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construct 

form (a sentence) according to syntactic rules.
"these rules tell us how to construct a grammatical sentence in a given language"
construct by Arminkshipper August 19, 2025

construct 

draw or describe (a geometric figure) accurately to given conditions.
"construct a square equal in area to a given circle"
construct by Arminkshipper August 19, 2025

Construct devotion match 

A serious or severe addiction to building games.
Most common in Roblox.
The user Barney9119_TheSecond has Construct Devotion match because he always uses F3X in games. He’s addicted to it

you must construct additional pylons 

This is possibly the most annoying phrase in the real-time-strategy game Starcraft.

The basic objective of Starcraft is to make a big army to destroy your opponent, however you have this army-size limit known as 'supply' that can only be increased by building a specific building, and for the alien faction 'protoss', that building is the pylon. So every 2-4 soldiers you build, you most build another pylon to sustain them. If you forget, a voice says "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS", and at that point, you realise that you can't build any more guys until you send a worker to build the pylon, and then wait for the pylon to finish. Then, 4 soldiers later, you will have to build ANOTHER one.

What makes this phrase especially annoying is how often the guy says it if you forget to build them, because soldiers of the protoss race take up so much supply, and their pylons provide such little supply.
*tries to build a soldier*

"YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS"

Kirk Construct

A situation presented for the express purpose of discussion intended to highlight flaws in the idea and evolve it while exposing the moral values of the individuals involved.

The parameters of said argument constantly evolve and change with the will of the originator, thus creating an ever fluctuating topic.
"What would you do if ten naked lesbian vampires came into your room and wanted to rape you?"

"I'd leave."

"No, you can't, the door is locked."

"I'd jump out the window."

"That's sealed shut."

"Die happy."
Kirk Construct by Dæmonite September 17, 2003

social construct 

A rhetorical technique used (often by a neurotic undergraduate a with a Yoko Ono tattoo) to deny the existence of irrefutable fact. But this is not its original meaning:

Properly understood, a social construct is a thing that emerges as a result of social interaction. For instance, the price of gold is a social construct—it emerges from the market for gold as an approximation of how society presently values gold in relation to another asset, usually currency.

Social constructs are no less "real" than the price of gold is "real." It's not as real as gold itself, but it's pretty damn real.