reinforce
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Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Friday that a Qatari delegation was visiting Iran to "try to reinforce Qatar's role as a mediator".
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
If tensions persist, oil prices could rebound and reinforce inflation concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The message coming out of Ankara is they definitely still want it and are willing to spend billions to reinforce it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
There would be no better opposition against whom to reinforce their improvement.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
The Vietnam War was often referred to as the “helicopter war,”as the US relied heavily on them to attack, resupply, reinforce troops, and evacuate wounded.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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If management raises its expected margin again, that reinforces the idea that Netflix is becoming more like a highly profitable media-services company rather than simply a streamer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“If anything this reinforces the impetus to invest in other pathways as quickly as possible.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Davies hopes the documentary raises awareness of the harm caused by hidden spy cameras and reinforces that abuses of privacy and "consent should never be normalised".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Stapleton added that the incident reinforces the importance of social media monitoring and adopting a modern version of “see something, say something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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By all reports, he certainly reinforced the president’s inclination to join Israel in attacking Iran this past February.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
That reinforced a "reasonable assumption" that it was "almost exclusively" entities connected to UniCredit that were accepting the offer, Commerzbank said in June.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Across volatile regions, some critical infrastructure, like desalination plants and data centers, will need to be fortified with layers of reinforced concrete, duplicated to provide backups or potentially relocated underground—at significant cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
It reinforced my feeling that some host cities weren't fully connected to the tournament.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
And now the complete emptiness of the halls just reinforced his belief that they were going the wrong way.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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“Our strategy is working. We are attracting a broad range of luxury customers across product categories, channels and geographies, reinforcing my confidence in the opportunities ahead,” Chief Executive Joshua Schulman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
For Rahmstorf, the past shows the Atlantic can shift suddenly from one state to another, while the modern ocean is already showing warning signs of the system reinforcing its own decline.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
In general, these moves by Rockstar might prove enormously successful, reinforcing some of these problematic trends.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Crews scooped out a pair of tunnels, reinforcing walls as they advanced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
“That’s why he’s building the wall! It’s to keep the tortoise in, if he should ever break free. He’s probably reinforcing it with...”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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