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Example sentences for: buildup

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Though the buildup is sharply amusing in retrospect, it has succeeded in making Pat's return to television an event.
If credibility were such a fragile commodity, we wouldn't have needed the Reagan buildup after the Russians blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or in 1973 when they made noises about helping the Arabs in the Yom Kippur war and then backed down.
Much hardware remains from the Soviet buildup, but most of it doesn't work.
There were also protests against domestic austerities during the armaments buildup of 1935-36.
After weeks of buildup, critics are ambivalent about Oprah Winfrey's adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel: "[T]he movie is undeniably a labor of devotion and intelligence, but, in the end, a labor is just what it is" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film gets a few outright raves, and Oprah's performance is universally lauded.