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build

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UK /bɪld/US /bɪld/
verb

to make something, especially a building, by putting parts together

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So uh, and that was really the basis of Zip 2, and we ended up building quite a bit of software for the media industry—primarily the print media industry.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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