Usually means: Construction filled with potential, meaning.
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  2. pregnant construction: Wiktionary
  3. Pregnant construction: Dictionary.com
  4. pregnant construction: FreeDictionary.org
  5. Pregnant construction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pregnant construction)

noun:  (rhetoric, archaic) An utterance in which more is implied than is said, such as "the beasts trembled forth from their dens" (i.e. trembling with fright).

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