custom-built
adjective
cus·tom-built ˈkə-stəm-ˈbilt 
: built to individual specifications
a custom-built house
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The plane’s wheels, for example, were custom-built based on historical photos by a local motorcycle shop. —
Victoria Le, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026 The Athena team custom-built their own emergency stop system that can cut power to the robot almost instantly, either through physical controls or a wireless remote. —New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026 The Pixel 10 series uses Google’s homegrown Tensor G5 processor, custom-built for AI applications. —Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026 But scientists have only tuned into this music of the spheres for about a decade, thanks to sophisticated observatories that were custom-built to pick up these reverberations—gravitational waves—which ripple otherwise unnoticed through the fabric of spacetime. —K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for custom-built
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Victoria Le, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026 The Athena team custom-built their own emergency stop system that can cut power to the robot almost instantly, either through physical controls or a wireless remote. —New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026 The Pixel 10 series uses Google’s homegrown Tensor G5 processor, custom-built for AI applications. —Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026 But scientists have only tuned into this music of the spheres for about a decade, thanks to sophisticated observatories that were custom-built to pick up these reverberations—gravitational waves—which ripple otherwise unnoticed through the fabric of spacetime. —K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for custom-built
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“Custom-built.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/custom-built. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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