building blocks

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of building block.
  building block

  noun

  block.

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building blocks

Peptides are short chains of amino acids that assemble to form proteins, which are the body's building blocks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“They’re really tailored to individual situations, and people have used them as building blocks in their overall portfolio,” said Marc Nachmann, global head of asset and wealth management at Goldman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The CPI and PPI might not carve a Fed rate hike in stone, but they could be the biggest building blocks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Opinion is divided on whether these are sensible building blocks for the economy which allow living standards to improve, or a "dysfunctional" economic straitjacket.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Some molecules reproduced themselves inefficiently, competed for building blocks and left crude copies of themselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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