cement
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In another step to cement Huerta’s legacy, one of her nonprofits broke ground in 2025 for the Dolores Huerta Peace & Justice Cultural Center in Bakersfield, the San Joaquin Valley city she called home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
After graduating from Egypt's Al-Azhar University, Dangote started trading in cement, rice and sugar.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Here we are, two decades on, watching her documentary further cement Sofia’s film as the modern classic it is.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
He entrenched himself as the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, guide Texas to a national title and cement himself as the top pick in the NFL draft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
I leaned my bike against the tall tree shading over the building and walked up the cracked cement sidewalk.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
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His landmark concert at Wembley further cements his status as a global star.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
BNP Paribas analyst Moses Sutton wrote after the deal that it cements “Nextpower as the all-around way for investors to play AI-supported solar + storage growth.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
As the company cements itself in the woman’s activewear segment, it is eyeing an expansion in Asia and could snag market share in the region from rivals like Lululemon and Alo Yoga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
That measure cements the top three income brackets on taxpayers making more than $360,000, with a top rate of 13.3% on millionaires—and all of its revenue would have to go to education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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The results from the Central Elections Committee also cemented the emergence as potential kingmakers of the Arab party groupings Raam and the Joint List, with the two winning a combined 19 seats.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Starting with Three Billboards, he cemented a relationship with Searchlight Pictures that continued with Banshees and now Wild Horse Nine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Herman, a German transplant who has been in L.A. since 1977, is an artist whose vividly rendered paintings cemented him as one of the West Coast leaders of the ’80s neo-Expressionist movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
A third novel, published in 1984, First Among Equals, about a cutthroat competition to become Prime Minister, cemented Archer's position as one of Britain's best-selling and highest earning authors.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
They exchanged members, hunted together, traded rare luxuries, cemented political alliances and celebrated religious festivals.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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But interest-rate futures indicate that traders still see a roughly 85% chance that the Fed will raise rates by the end of the year, with this week’s hot inflation data only cementing those bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the film merely gestures to its own unfortunate place in history, without ever cementing it as a tragedy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Houthis have been cementing their hold on the Bab Al-Mandab strait, a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia that has been used as an alternative to Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
On Friday, Microsoft’s stock notched its sixth straight session of gains — rising 6.7% over that multiday period, and cementing its longest winning streak since Oct.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The trapped worked perfectly, cementing TimeStar’s back to it.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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