as in members
one of the parts that make up a whole
historically the infantry division has been a basic building block of armies
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Recent Examples of building blocks
The goal is not finished meals but building blocks that move easily between lunches and dinners.
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Kansas City Star,
27 May 2026
Achane and center Aaron Brewer as building blocks for the new regime.
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Miami Herald,
19 May 2026
These nanoglobules act as building blocks, and they’re held in a stable, liquid state.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
In the video, Bill Riley, a vice president of Starship engineering, cast endeavors like SpaceX's smaller Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, as well as its Dragon spacecraft that travels in orbit, as building blocks to the grander unveiling of Starship.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
Now, as a study in Nature Communications reports, Curiosity may not have only found conditions that could have hosted life, but chemicals that, on Earth at least, are building blocks of biology.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
Players like Buium, Tom Willander and Liam Öhgren may be building blocks, perhaps, but the reality is that this process is beginning without any surefire cornerstone pieces in place.
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Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Such a meal should include a good source of protein, such as eggs, in order to stock up on or refuel depleted amino acids, including cysteine and methionine, which are building blocks for protective antioxidants.
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Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
Every day, practice, period, rep, snap and second are building blocks to something bigger.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2026
Achane and center Aaron Brewer as building blocks for the new regime.
—
Miami Herald,
19 May 2026
These nanoglobules act as building blocks, and they’re held in a stable, liquid state.
—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
In the video, Bill Riley, a vice president of Starship engineering, cast endeavors like SpaceX's smaller Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, as well as its Dragon spacecraft that travels in orbit, as building blocks to the grander unveiling of Starship.
—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
Now, as a study in Nature Communications reports, Curiosity may not have only found conditions that could have hosted life, but chemicals that, on Earth at least, are building blocks of biology.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
21 Apr. 2026
Players like Buium, Tom Willander and Liam Öhgren may be building blocks, perhaps, but the reality is that this process is beginning without any surefire cornerstone pieces in place.
—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
Such a meal should include a good source of protein, such as eggs, in order to stock up on or refuel depleted amino acids, including cysteine and methionine, which are building blocks for protective antioxidants.
—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
Every day, practice, period, rep, snap and second are building blocks to something bigger.
—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for building blocks
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Some council members also expressed enthusiasm for developing a battery storage system at last week’s council meeting.
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When his time came to address members of the party from the event’s main stage Friday night, Talarico delivered a love letter to Texas intermixed with a firm rebuke of billionaires and his GOP opponent.
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The agency estimated the powerful earthquakes in Venezuela could have killed thousands of people, with a 42% chance of at least 10,000 fatalities, though that is based on historical averages and does not take into account many factors specific to this event.
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Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation.
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In the age of Neapolitan worship, some Melburnians disdain its existence for the cheap ingredients that defined early Australian versions.
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It’s made with ingredients like shea butter and castor oil to help keep lashes strong and hydrated, even through all-day wear.
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If China is excluded, Asia still out-produces the rest of the world in solar modules and battery components.
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This Lego set comes with a convenient storage box, 790 Lego pieces, and lots of add-on building components, like eyes and wheels.
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Investigators found that initial structural failure spread to other elements of the pool deck and street-level parking garage and caused cracks to grow over the span of a few weeks, eventually unseating the southern edge of the pool deck slab from its supporting wall, the report said.
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The consequence of all these elements of deconstruction and lightness is that there is no space to cut corners or hide imperfections.
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“Building blocks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/building%20blocks. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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