building block

Example Sentences

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Before the clash, there was a sense that a positive performance in Madrid could be used as a building block for Tudor before a crucial game at Liverpool in the Premier League this weekend.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“And it was such a building block for so many other things in my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

It’s the first building block, the thing that quietly dictates how the rest of the week will unfold.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

Many of these tumor specific glycans include a sugar building block called sialic acid.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

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