strengthen
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In January, a Dutch court also cited the opinion when it ordered the Netherlands to strengthen its climate plan in a case brought by residents of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
This can rip storms apart before they have time to strengthen.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The “Magnificent Seven”—the mega-cap companies Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Tesla—continued to strengthen in premarket trade after powering indexes to new records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and looks likely to strengthen into the first Atlantic hurricane of this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
She gave me a new kind of medicine to give him each night to help strengthen his lungs.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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"Any initiative that strengthens Ukraine's already highly capable, but heavily burdened, cyber defence efforts is a welcome development and could provide a valuable force multiplier," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“This should fundamentally weigh on aluminum prices—especially if the U.S. dollar strengthens as we anticipate in the coming quarters,” he says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The extension bill, AB 1847, strengthens the deferral language so borrowers have greater certainty about their repayment options when they exit the program, Harabedian’s office noted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
In an earlier study, researchers at Leipzig University had already found that activation with AP503 also strengthens skeletal muscle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
At first my voice trembles like the leaves over my head, but then the song strengthens it.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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It added: "Our strengthened Water Bill will deliver cleaner waters, stronger accountability and will create a powerful new regulator to hold companies to account."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
They noted that the labor market had strengthened a bit and that the U.S. economy was expanding at a solid pace.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Sao Paulo stock market opened eight percent higher after the results and the real strengthened against the dollar.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the past three months it has strengthened 39%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In the spring of 2007, the subprime mortgage bond market, incredibly, had strengthened a bit.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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They are a sign of a healthy and strengthening economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
This interaction lowers the energy of the superconducting state, making superconductivity more stable and effectively strengthening it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Sterling and Stones clauses were worth more than most players operating in the English Football League at that time, significantly strengthening the financial positions of QPR and Barnsley.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The two were already at odds over Addis Ababa's new Nile mega-dam, with Egypt strengthening ties with Eritrea in recent months.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Will sensed it all and felt the atoms of the metal linking each to each across the fracture, forming new crystals again, strengthening and straightening themselves in the invisible lattice as the join came good.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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