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Another vessel, HS Dignity, which was struck 17 nautical miles east of the Bulgarian shore, sank, with five people rescued and 11 crew members still missing, authorities said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Weather and ocean conditions "will continue to be a factor", researchers say, and El Niño could limit daily access to shore.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Threats also remain from strong rip currents and large waves, which increase the risk of ocean drowning and could threaten to capsize small boats near shore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, have proposed a bill to shore up Social Security’s finances and expand benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
As soon as she’d seen the bus sink, she’d dived back into the water, leaving Rashawn to make it to shore on her own.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
After a series of equipment failures last year, the FAA shored up the feed with better bandwidth and redundancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
They’d loved hiking the Great Wall of China and participating in 150-mile bike rides, and had shored up their finances to retire early.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Alphabet has shored up its advertising dominance while setting a new path as a top AI merchant.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
By borrowing to spend, the chancellor and prime minister have shored up their immediate position in parliament and it appears to put to bed the shocking doubts about passing their budgets.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
They would need to make sure that all their weaknesses are shored up.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
Meanwhile, Network Rail has acknowledged a squeezed budget means difficult choices, and shoring up the network against the effects of more extreme weather requires investment.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Mistral has been shoring up its network of alliances lately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Google’s artificial-intelligence research unit is set to release a new model with significantly upgraded coding capabilities, according to employees, potentially shoring up an area where the company has lagged behind competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Meanwhile, Iran’s central bank governor, Abdolnaser Hemmati, said the U.S. had already done all that it can against Iran and that the central bank had been shoring up its foreign currency reserves for months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
The ferret jumped backwards as the shoring burst and the tunnel workings caved in with a dull rumble of earth.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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