built up
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“I still think it hasn’t been so long that the equity that he’s built up with the pitch count is that much compromised,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Manufacturing HBM at scale requires expertise that must be built up over multiple iterations of trial and error.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Graham, for better and worse, had built up a fiefdom for himself in foreign policy, similar to the way McCain or other old Senate lions had.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
It also built up a network of spies across the developing world to foster revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The revolution had been slow and ponderous, but it had weight, and that weight built up a momentum, and when that momentum finally broke forth, it was with a great and accumulated force.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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My odyssey began in Navy Yard, a recently built-up D.C. neighborhood where the Transportation Department is headquartered.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
“The Ghost Trail has that familiar ride and feel, with built-up traction, durability and ‘just-enough’ protection,” says Nick Clinton, footwear product line manager at Brooks Running.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
If you have a highly concentrated stock allocation with large built-up gains, you can gradually whittle down your position and use the $6,000 deduction to minimize or cancel the tax hit, Adams says.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
I had so much built-up anxiety about facing my own numbers, but seeing my boyfriend lay his cards on the table gave me the courage to finally log in and look at mine.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
Every few months—especially when it was hot and humid—the weight of the built-up paper would become too much for the staples, and a slow avalanche of clippings would lean forward and whisper to the floor.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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