build into

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(tr, preposition) to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)

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Words nearby build into

building line, building paper, building permit, building society, building trades, build into, build on, build on sand, buildup, built, built cane

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Those are saguaro cactuses…the big ones…birds make holes in them and build their nests inside.
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Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.
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“He could build studios and he understood technology,” Jackson told The Daily Beast.
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The narrator is suggesting that they build a snowman that looks like a minister.
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Regardless, few had been given any reason to believe they could build a life for themselves beyond the streets.
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They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Now is the time to build for the future, and to avoid paying too much attention to immediate profits.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
Ki Pak's servants proceeded to build a fire in the centre of the yard and the cook made preparations for getting supper.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

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