building block
Frequency: 7.519.5 per million words
often used figuratively
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Examples (10)
- Amino acids are the essential building blocks of proteins.
- Trust is the fundamental building block of any healthy relationship.
- Children learn basic concepts by playing with colorful building blocks.
- This course provides the essential building blocks for a career in marketing.
- The ancient wall was constructed from massive stone building blocks.
- A cell is the basic building block of all living organisms.
- Each successful deal was another building block in the company's empire.
- Learning the alphabet is the first building block of literacy.
- These modular units act as building blocks for creating custom furniture.
- His early experiments were the building blocks for his greatest discovery.