reinforced

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"The conflict has reinforced gaps in air defence capability, accelerating investment in missile defence, counter drone systems and military hardware across Europe and the US," she told the BBC.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

“Rehnquist reinforced John’s preexisting philosophies,” said Paul Smith, now a prominent liberal Supreme Court litigator who clerked that same year for Justice Lewis Powell.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Historian Bernard Capp, Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, explains that hat etiquette once reinforced social hierarchy.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

Meeting some of you in person reinforced what my inbox proves every week: You are smart, prudent, curious, skeptical, knowledgeable and, above all, nice.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

She was so exquisitely sensitive, in fact, that everyone in her family believed her to possess “second sight,” an idea that was dramatically reinforced when they read the newspaper on the morning of April 15,1912.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown