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The phrase "build up pressure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to increasing pressure or stress in a situation. For example, "The deadlines were quickly approaching, so the team had to work harder to build up pressure and meet the deadline."
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So the hope is that the film will gradually build up pressure on the government.
Mr Brower helped found or build up pressure groups such as the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth.
The freshwater is drawn across the membrane to dilute the saltwater, and so helps to build up pressure on that side of the tank.
They have abandoned efforts to permanently plug the well from the top because that would build up pressure that might cause damage.
A stream of air striking the open end of a tube closed at the other end will build up pressure within the tube.
Engineers continued to work on the preventer with submersibles, and started preparing for the top kill, a procedure that entailed some risk because to succeed it would first have to build up pressure at the top of the well.
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The fault slides and catches, builds up pressure and then releases that pressure along smaller adjacent faults.
As the engine runs the cooling system builds up pressure, and one of its main functions is to remove the built up heat from the engine and disperse it through the fins of the radiator.
Distillation apparatuses are not usually closed, pressurized systems, so do not built up pressure.
"This builds up pressure on Bank of America and the S.E.C".
The aqueducts have an average thirteen-inches-per-mile drop, which builds up pressure — called 'head' — strong enough to carry the water as high as six stories when it finally reaches the city.
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