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Also, build upon. Add as an extension; use as a basis or foundation. For example, They decided to build on an addition, or She was building all her hopes on passing the exam. John Locke had this idiom in his treatise on government (1689): “Sovereignty built on ‘property’ . . . comes to nothing.” [Late 1600s]

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
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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
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
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

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