augment
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The Rams moved to augment their struggling special teams on Tuesday, signing veteran kicker Brandon McManus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
Howard wanted some mature horses to augment his fleet of juveniles.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Johnny Moreno’s video and projection design artfully augments the production’s imaginative world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
In other words, will AI be a force that replaces labor, or augments it?
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Novo’s cautious C-suite was ready to target Type 2 diabetes—an obvious choice, as GLP-1 augments insulin secretion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“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
In “Then When,” a sharp rhythm, drummed on the strings, is augmented by percussive hits on different parts of the case, yielding a variety of timbres, and a plucked riff is repeated a few times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The urban aesthetic was augmented with a bluesy, funky score by composer Jim Lang, inspired by Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi and Beck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
“The same AI-generated or augmented image can be a legitimate creative choice in one context and a trust violation in another.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Listen closely to an augmented triad8 and a diminished triad9 .
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
In an interview with AFP last month, Banga said the private capital should be seen as augmenting, not replacing, development financing and that it is needed to address the developing world's vast financial needs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Lewenstein believes AI’s true promise lies in augmenting, not automating, human capabilities.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
On many of these songs, Ms. Case places her poetic narratives in a chamber-pop setting, with tasteful orchestrations augmenting guitar, piano, bass and drums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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 or augmenting chords does strange things to the way they behave.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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