build up
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You want to build and practice healthy spending habits, so that you don’t end up in this position again and you can continue to build up your emergency savings fund.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
It is now flanked by a similar-sized area they call "the fridge", which they temporarily closed as a way to build up fish stocks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
He'll use Hubble to explore these questions for the next several years, hoping to build up substantial data and statistics about these new types of celestial bodies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
“We need to understand exactly what has happened,” he wrote on X. “And we have to assume we may not know the full truth. And have to act to build up our biodefense accordingly.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
For one thing, as I said, if he was going to be sick, he ought to build up his strength.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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