construct

In a sentence

Six example sentences with construct, each labelled with its topic.

• Researchers treat resilience as a construct, built out of hundreds of observed behaviors rather than anything you can measure directly.

  Psychology

• He insists that the self is a construct assembled from memories and habits, not a thing waiting to be found.

  Philosophy

• Consumer confidence is a construct drawn from thousands of survey answers, so no single household ever holds the figure itself.

  Economics

• The reasonable person is a legal construct, pieced together from many rulings rather than modeled on any living juror.

  Law

• Product-market fit is a construct investors infer from growth curves and retention, not a figure any dashboard reports directly.

  Startups

• Brand loyalty is a construct built from repeat purchases and survey answers, so no single customer ever displays the number itself.

  Business

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains construct. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• aid
• equivalent
• maintained
• attach
• positively
• selection
• lecture
• undergo
• affect
• concentration
• capable
• briefly