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shore

[shawr, shohr] / ʃɔr, ʃoʊr /




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Toronto, Canada's largest city, sits on the northwestern shore of the lake.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The commitments from senior management and an influential figure like Ma, who is no longer on the company’s board, helped to shore up Alibaba’s foundering share price.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

The former industrial town of Gary, which runs along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, was hit particularly hard.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The country’s president and its parliamentary speaker say Tehran needs to negotiate an exit and shore up its economy while it has leverage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The wooden pier, unused for a dozen years, jutted several hundred feet out from shore.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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

So, too, the U.S. labor market can be shored up by continued consumer spending, business investment, and policies that promote economic growth.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 2025

Officials with the gas company said they have shored up the facility, including replacing the inner steel tubing on all operating wells and conducting continuous ambient methane monitoring.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

The aim was to have the three countries work more closely together on advanced submarines and other emerging technologies, as the U.S. shored up its network of alliances to counter Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

It had been neatly dug and shored up with wooden supports.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the country needs to focus on ending the war and shoring up its crippled economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 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

Born in Jakarta in 1963, Destry holds degrees from the University of Indonesia and Cornell University, and is expected to maintain a balance between shoring up growth and keeping the rupiah stable.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

As the company worked on shoring up its manufacturing capacity, a cultural shift was under way that neither Novo nor Lilly predicted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Foremole and his team knew all there was to know about the diggings: depth, approximate dimensions, the placement of shoring, even where the first rat’s head was likely to break ground.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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