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

These states do not fit neatly into the conventional picture of particles built from quarks, the fundamental building blocks of matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

They were the building blocks of the zucchini bread that used to be waiting for me in her refrigerator.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

When an atom that is part of a molecule loses an electron, it lets go of the other atoms, breaking the molecule apart and destroying our tiniest building blocks.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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