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California’s Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote next week to approve the merger that would bolster Southern California’s dominant provider with more than 5 million customers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

SoftBank’s first-quarter earnings comfortably outpaced analyst expectations but this time around, Masayoshi Son the founder and chief executive, was unable to bolster his results with an increased valuation of the SoftBank stake in OpenAI.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Turner and Barbaro give it their best, but not even their charisma can reliably bolster the inherent structural flaws of this concept and its execution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

As part of efforts to bolster its car business in China, Honda in July extended its joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group through 2038.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

He could repeat each word of the book in perfect order, but that did not bolster his confidence.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

In a broadly sweet, vivacious and gorgeously sung set Tuesday, that sentiment revealed the moral clarity that bolsters her songs about devotion and intimacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The way everyone responded to this error—by turning a simple mistake into a ritual flogging—only bolsters the toxic notion that the press is forever viciously intruding on the secret, sacred work of perfect jurists.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Supreme Court ruling bolsters the central bank’s independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

“The inflation outlook has intensified as the Iran war boosts energy costs, tariffs weigh on goods prices, and the AI data build out bolsters prices,” write my colleagues Josh Schafer and Megan Leonhardt.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

We put Alphie in the pram and pile around him the pot, the pan, the kettle, the jamjars and mugs, the Pope, two bolsters and the coats from the beds.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

They’re blindly screaming their heads off, bolstered by the person who stopped molding herself in someone else’s image, who refused to cater to how the world or the industry thought she should appear.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

She was also bolstered to see women continuing to compete even as their families grow.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Asian stocks broadly rose Tuesday morning as hopes for a new U.S.-Iran ceasefire bolstered investor appetite for risky assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

With the Los Tropicanos backing band behind him, Iggy’s energy was transferred through the players who bolstered his catalog of Detroit-bred proto punk with tight precision and the right amount of stumbling sleaziness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

And then the three of us are laughing again, exhilarated, bolstered together in our defiance.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Both the 2028 Games and those future events will help fill Pasadena hotels, restaurants and shops, bolstering the local economy and adding tax dollars to the city treasury, according to supporters of the plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

AbbVie last month agreed to buy Apogee for about $10.9 billion, bolstering its core immunology franchise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Conservationists said bolstering smaller hedgehog populations, providing habitat to support more animals, and helping them move around to increase viability of populations without crossing more roads were important.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

This includes bolstering London's close ties with Kyiv and plans to strengthen relations with the European Union after the rancour of the Brexit years.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

A lack of introspection was good for bolstering your courage, but in the last months and weeks it had done damage to Milton.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides