built up

Example Sentences

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That suggests the treatment may be most active in older tissue, where senescent cells have built up.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Crabtree workied at SpaceX for over a decade and during that period, she saw the city “being built up around” the commerce that SpaceX brought.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The Justice Department built up this reputation over decades of extreme competency—like, really qualified people who were obviously going to do the ethical thing and never lie to judges.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Some mouth the words, but others belt away, letting all the emotion built up over the six other days of the week fall onto Rhodes, who’s not Rhodes then, but simply the Host.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

For the next three years, the lava ran down in spines and pooled to create another dome, just to the south of the one that had been built up more than two decades before.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone