reinforce
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We’re having to reinforce roads to deal with extreme heat or extreme precipitation.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Swiss pharmaceutical company said Tuesday that the study results for the drug, enicepatide, reinforce its ambitions to rapidly develop its portfolio of medicines for people with obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Dell Technologies and HPE stocks are leading the S&P 500 higher as Oracle’s massive spending plans reinforce optimism about demand for AI data-center hardware.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The findings reinforce a broader lesson emerging from research on alternative sweeteners.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
He looked over at Ethan, inviting him to reinforce the invitation.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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“This campus reflects our confidence in what’s ahead and reinforces our long-term commitment to Irvine and the broader Orange County community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yet each new concern reinforces the lesson 9/11 had made impossible to ignore—that the greatest risk is seldom a specific threat we anticipate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Harbor resonance, in which the shape of a basin reinforces the water's oscillations, helped explain why neighboring ports experienced different effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
But the judge ruled that "far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness" of her conviction.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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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Monday’s victory — imperfect but convincing — reinforced those assumptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The study involved a different molecular pathway from Menin, but reinforced the broader idea that brain signals can affect aging beyond the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
That’s an area reinforced by other support measures, including the 200-day moving average and the median historical pullback of roughly 7%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Kostyantynivka, to the south, form part of what is known as Ukraine's "fortress belt" – a system of heavily reinforced defence lines in the east.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The keel was reinforced with the Docker’s mast.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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"Anticipation of reward can be as reinforcing as the reward itself," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Inditex, which operates in 215 markets worldwide, said its business model, "characterised by flexibility, responsiveness and within-season sourcing, permits us to react to fashion trends, reinforcing our unique market position" in a fragmented sector.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
At the same time, global yields are rising and reinforcing the move.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The discoveries are also reinforcing the importance of the Lake Turkana region as one of the world's richest areas for studying human evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
My mother makes us scarf down our food in four minutes, reinforcing the definition of fast food.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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