building block

Example Sentences

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"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

Their design could also be integrated with other quantum technologies, serving as a building block for connecting different types of quantum platforms.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

In its primordial form, liberalism was a political belief that the building block of society is the individual—an idea tethered loosely to the Christian notion that every single human being contains a divine spark.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 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 would be lovely to cuddle up beside her while Georgie sat nearby, building block towers and pretending not to listen.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn