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build up

To accumulate, to pile up.

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Every since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up.

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I searched up phrases starting with “the fourth” and the answer was “the fourth estate” but that wasn’t an option
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  Here: https://www.phrases.com/phrase/the-fourth-estate_63865
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