building block
Example Sentences
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Cheap, reliable exchange-traded funds are a basic building block of investing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Can Carleton be a building block player for a new franchise?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
It will be a building block and a key ingredient in every new “unicorn” — a company with a valuation of at least $1 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
"This Picasso initiative is one more building block so that one day Alzheimer's will be nothing more than a bad memory," the foundation's head Olivier de Ladoucette said, the AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Trouble, Jesse often declared, was the building block of character.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
