building up
Example Sentences
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“You are the one out of work and not building up savings and retirement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Nunn says the key to building up savings is to automate putting money aside.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Speculators have been building up bullish dollar bets in the futures market for weeks — long before President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believed an interim deal to end hostilities with Iran was “over.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
And at the same time, they were building up, while extremely limited, a representative democracy.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
The force of that blast had knocked a square panel from unit 2’s exterior, creating a vent for the hydrogen gas building up inside.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
