fix
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Our cost crisis stems not from demographic inevitability, but from a reactive “you break it, we fix it” paradigm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
He warns that unless ministers "fix and fund NHS dentistry", more dentists could choose to reduce their NHS work or leave the service altogether.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Even Oscar winners can point to something they’d fix in every scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
As we can clearly see this week, the paint is peeling and we have no way to fix it.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
But before I explain that Dad is the absolute last person to fix electrical problems—he once hired a handyman to change a lightbulb—Camille runs into the kitchen.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Raman added that the council will continue to monitor data from the program and make fixes as needed if it doesn’t move fast enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
He said mildew is a common regional issue his team fixes as necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
She fixes my pillows and tucks me in gently, pulling the covers up over my body.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Some lenders allow borrowers to only pay monthly interest charges or a small fixed payment each month while they are still in school.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
His opponent responds by juggling his outstretched palms in a "6-7," a viral youth meme that has no fixed meaning but has become so ubiquitous that even Pope Leo has taken to performing it.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
A pond covered in green algae will cost £100,000 to restore and cannot be fixed with simple measures, an environment boss has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
WSJ | Buy Side: Flat-fee financial advisers charge a fixed dollar amount for their services, regardless of clients’ portfolio sizes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Scripture reading at 8:30 each morning for all who were in the house was another of the fixed points around which life in the Beje revolved.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
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
This is the fixt Nature of Pleasure and Pain, and will always be found to be so by those who examine it.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
These twining roots most plentuously abound, Till they had fixt her body to the ground.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller
CEO Michael Fiddelke said that clothing and home goods were the categories most in need of fixing at Target.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The plan: spend $130,000 and five months fixing up the property and sell it for over $300,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“It’s been fun fixing minor annoyances,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
A woman has criticised Anglian Water for imposing a hosepipe ban while not fixing a water leak that she had reported "weeks ago".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“That’s all right. Mother said that he was going to France because it was easier than fixing things at home. You probably know that already, though, if you’re her friend.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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