building block
noun
building blocks
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pluralof building block.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And they could keep rising for a few more years due to a persistent shortage of the building blocks of AI networks, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of the Global Electronics Association.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 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
That's because of rapidly changing economics around tokens, the building blocks of LLMs and agentic AI.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Peptides are short chains of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
So the question is: what are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
