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[fiks] / fɪks /










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If you’re on a monthly draw and you give to charity, that’s the first thing to fix.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

"If a true friend like Huckabee has to bang on the table, then all of us need to stop and ask how it happened that we lost our way, and fix it immediately," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

They are negotiating settlement agreements with claimants, whose lawyers say the estate wants to secure a deal as soon as possible to fix a potential liability and understand the extent of the financial damage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

"You're trying to fix something that could have been prevented. Parents are left to pick up the pieces," she said.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

“The wire came loose. I’m really sorry. I can fix it. If you want me to.”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

For Leon Berkers, whose restaurant boat has been stuck in the mud for more than a month, adaptation has so far meant improvising fixes to keep "pots and pans from flying around."

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

The overwhelming majority of concerns end in negotiated fixes: a divested subsidiary, a security agreement, more information-sharing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Anthropic added that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone."

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

As part of “By the People,” Slate’s series exploring how Americans can reclaim the Constitution and the law, Alexis Romero outlined three possible fixes for an out-of-control Supreme Court.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

Not regular animals like Miss Bessie or the chickens, but crazy animals with problems— for some reason he liked to put his beasts into impossible fixes.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

The longer the deployment, the list of issues that need to be fixed grows.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Over many decades, homeowners benefited handsomely from leverage, because they were able to borrow cheaply for 30 years at low fixed interest rates.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

A full inquest was fixed to be heard on 19 January.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Here’s how CEO Salim Ramji plans to bring Vanguard’s low-cost, high-return formula to cash savings, financial advice, and active fixed income.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Sancho's mind was fixed on one thing: that island.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

The Muscle of the Stapes or Stirrup is also hid in a Bony Tube, almost at the bottom of the Drum, and fixt in the Head of the Stapes.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

But all in vain, no counsel will prevail; H'as fixt himself, there's no removing, Jaques, 'Twill prove but breath and labor spent in vain, I'll to my horse, farewell.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Francis Beaumont

Dr. Donne:— If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two; Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

And which of the Officers was it as first fixt my gaze, and held it firmly?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various

While Scott was reading, the sage grimalkin already mentioned had taken his seat in a chair beside the fire, and remained with fixt eye and grave demeanor, as if listening to the reader.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge

American drone operators lack experience fixing and arming drones under fire, said the person present at the exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Yet in a bizarre case of fixing something that does not need fixing, the program became the one CBS property executives chose to radically remake.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

“While it is good that Honeywell Aerospace recognizes that it has problems, fixing them will not be an overnight affair,” he said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

"The law is clear: price fixing of any kind is not tolerated in New York, or across our nation."

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

One of the team taped up a sign with a single handwritten word: Plumbers—a joking reference to their mission of finding and fixing leaks.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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