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
One of us worked side-by-side with Fed officials for a number of years on ways to augment the dot plot.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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
Kendra pressed her hands over her ears, trying to augment the dampening power of the earplugs.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
In a funky rendition of “Oh Happy Day,” for instance, the director augments the Sweet Inspirations’ original backing vocals with the newly recorded voices of a gospel choir from Nashville.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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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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
But where augmented surveillance tools might be troubling from a civil liberties perspective, they have unarguable safety benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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
At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like “sulks.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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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
You’ve never read a bird book like this one, written and illustrated in a spirit of determined awareness, augmenting facts with spirited play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Lewenstein believes AI’s true promise lies in augmenting, not automating, human capabilities.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 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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