building blocks
- plural of building block.
Example Sentences
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For all the technological advances, hiring experts say the old-school building blocks count more than ever.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Because crackers, even very good ones, remain one of the cheapest building blocks of a party.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because they can potentially encode and store information, researchers see them as promising building blocks for future data storage, communications, and computing technologies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Diamond Light Source - a giant machine, half a kilometre around, that produces X-rays far brighter than the Sun to see the tiniest building blocks of matter.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
