secure
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In order to secure the large number of signatures, proponents of initiatives typically hire petition management companies, according to the indictment.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 10, 2026
Saleh said he ordered the establishment of a fallback command hub in a secure position to reorganize.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 10, 2026
Any revival, however slow, is likely to have far-reaching implications amidst the international race to secure resources critical to AI.
From Barron's β Sep. 10, 2026
The 27-year arrived at the US Open trailing Aryna Sabalenka by just 434 points and was guaranteed to secure the number one ranking for the first time in her career by reaching the semi-finals.
From BBC β Sep. 9, 2026
He lived his life quietly, calmly, and that made me feel safe and secure, as though he were the breakwall that held back Maxwell Street’s noise and chaos.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
By the time of his silver jubilee in 1935, the position of this reimagined British monarchy was securer than it had ever been.
From Washington Post β Jan. 28, 2022
In general, it was not a year in which the older novelists made their reputations securer.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You're the young lady that's missing?" the woman answered, taking a securer hold of the window-frame, and bringing her head into the room.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
The expense for this importation is slight, the outlay secure; a savings bank is not securer, and no investment brings in a higher rate of interest.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
He was virtually cold shouldered out of the Senate, for it was with immense relief that he escaped from teapot ostracism to the securer social area of the Federal bench.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
The securest hold was Adam Sandler's: his Grown Ups fell a negligible 14%.
From Time β Jul. 11, 2010
Even threaten the securest position, when long continued.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vickers, the securest of Otellos onstage, does not always seem comfort able on vinyl.
From Time Magazine Archive
The odds are that Poetry London-New York will not prove the securest of jobs for Tambi.
From Time Magazine Archive
A constitution has been acquired, which, though neither of us thinks perfect, yet both consider as competent to render our fellow-citizens the happiest and the securest on whom the sun has ever shone.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Of course, the same kinds of models that are finding solutions to ErdΕs problems can also find the hidden vulnerabilities in the software that secures modern life.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 15, 2026
If the petition secures 218 signatures from House members, the full House will vote on the bill.
From Slate β Aug. 4, 2026
It does fit in with one of Andy Burnham's missions of reindustrialisation by encouraging the kind of investment that brings and secures jobs.
From BBC β Jul. 19, 2026
China’s Taiyi Quantum secures $44 million in Pre-A funding, highlighting intensified state-backed quantum development as a national priority.
From Barron's β Jun. 29, 2026
She winds the scarf around my head and secures it with pins.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Navion Neurosciences, a Charlottesville, Va.-based startup developing precision medicines for neurological diseases, secured $10.8 million in seed financing led by the Angelini Lumira Biosciences Fund.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 10, 2026
Last year, the European Space Agency secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for the next three years.
From Barron's β Sep. 10, 2026
LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil says a lead investor has been secured to keep the upstart tour afloat, and the golfers will be majority equity holders.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
Skipper and club talisman Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring early, then secured victory late in a five-goal thriller at Bolton.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
Male advocates who had once been their allies told the women to support the Fifteenth Amendment and wait until African American men secured their rights.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta said in a statement following the Times exposé.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
It said it will continue to look for ways to improve while still securing the information needed to make a robust assessment of the level of support needed by each applicant.
From BBC β Sep. 4, 2026
Amazon disclosed that Anthropic and OpenAI have each committed to multiyear, multigigawatt purchases of its Trainium chips, with Anthropic alone securing up to 5 gigawatts.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 3, 2026
Yet the region lacks infrastructure to get sufficient oil to a refinery, and financing such a project would be a challenge, as would securing permits.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 2, 2026
At these generous habitations, we halted briefly, that an ensign might deliver word to the inhabitants of our securing the island in the name of His Majesty.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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