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build down

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build down
[for traffic] to reduce in volume or diminish. At about six, the going-home traffic begins to build down. When traffic builds down, I leave for home.
See also: build


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New York City brownstone dwellers may do well to follow the lead of rich Londoners who build down, rather than up, when they want to expand their homes.
While there's a perception that a nuclear build down by the world's major powers in recent decades has somehow resolved the global nuclear threat, a more accurate portrayal is that we're at a perilous crossroads," says Brian Toon, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the researchers who first floated the idea of a nuclear winter.
A particularly silly one is the suggestion that a four-lane elevated road be build down the center of the freeway, providing toll lanes for those who wish to pay for faster travel.
 
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