building block

Example Sentences

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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

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

Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell