English phrasal verb

build up

To develop or increase gradually.

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And whoever you are, you build up on that.

When we try to drift apart in an interdependent age, all we do is build up the negative and reduce the positive forces of interdependence.

The only thing that I can really say is what I building up to, this, is what I have build, been building up to for the past five minutes.

Well, I can tell you what we're gonna do, you know, at SpaceX and Tesla is we're, we're building up, large scale solar.

Because it is so important for China, for the world, to build up the trust system.

Because if you take those small steps over time, you build up a lifetime of another story for yourself.

He was teaching us that no role is beneath you while you're building up something great.

Fear and anger, and a stubborn resistance that had built up over many years.