buildup
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Researchers had previously found that gut microbes can modify bile acids and influence the amount of atherosclerosis, or fatty plaque buildup in the arteries, that develops over time.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
That process has begun: South Korea’s top economic and financial policymakers, including Shin, have just pledged tighter monitoring of margin lending — moving pre-emptively against the leverage buildup before the market fully prices the risk.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
After all the buildup, fear and uncertainty, the most wide-open and unpredictable California gubernatorial primary in decades appears to have ended in the most consistent and predictable of ways.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
“What amount of plaque there is going to be—because almost all of us are going to have some buildup there.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
From the buildup I’m expecting a room full of people, but it’s just Kyro.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
Vocabulary lists containing buildup
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The Contemporary Period, c. 1914 to the Present
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The First State of Being
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