augment
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A spokesman there said the state has dedicated more than $300 million to the 2028 effort, and also “advocated for necessary federal funding to augment state and local commitments.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"This suggests that repurposing medications that augment the function of dopamine-releasing neurons, including dopamine precursors and inhibitors of dopamine metabolism, could be a promising approach."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It can be used to automate an assembly line, to compensate for a gap in the user’s skills, or to augment and sharpen individual creativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And if you have $40,000, you could still guarantee a portion of it to augment your lifestyle above Social Security.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The arts, however, can be used effectively to augment this method, motivating students and appealing to their innate artistry and humanity.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Curated by Hever’s Alison Palmer, Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey, this extraordinary exhibition augments Hever’s “Rose Portrait” of Anne with personal objects and 37 other depictions, including 14 oil portraits on loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Despite the market’s concerns about the longevity of the current chip boom, Samsung still forecasts a major supply-demand deficit to persist into 2027, as growth in agentic AI augments the huge buildout of AI infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Her new position as chargé d’affaires augments a career that includes senior roles in hostage recovery for the FBI and as ambassador to Nicaragua and Honduras during periods characterized by social and political volatility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
“That’s amazing. My mother says they’re superhuman. Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system. And they’re so scary-looking, a lot of people just panic the first time they see one.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Adapted for TV: There will be the use of augmented reality, athlete headshots, win probabilities and projected finishing positions to develop viewer experience.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
This journal, which is eventually augmented by the daughter, makes up the book we are reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Its Irish operations also include a virtual and augmented reality business in Cork and a data centre outside Dublin.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Snap, which unveiled more powerful $2,195 augmented reality glasses this year, sold glasses that record video in bright yellow vending machines in 2016, but the product flopped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
His flesh could sense the steel that enveloped it was in a kind of trouble, an augmented desperation.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Lewenstein believes AI’s true promise lies in augmenting, not automating, human capabilities.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
His primary focus now, he says, is not on politics but on AI, which he has said is “like electrical current-invisible and augmenting almost every part of our lives.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Area fire departments have said they are prepositioning resources and augmenting staffing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Blessedly, Season 3 makes room for glimpses into the locals’ lives beyond the hotel, augmenting the personal stakes for workers beyond the usual administrative staff whose prickliness co-stars in previous seasons.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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