building block
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It will be a building block and a key ingredient in every new “unicorn” — a company with a valuation of at least $1 billion.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
"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
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
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