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"construct" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often build (5 letters).
Definitions
Build, create, or put together.
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.
Used in a sentence
“The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.”
“Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.”
“Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Build”9 letters
02“Build or create something”9 letters
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