supplement
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Doctors don't routinely offer blood tests to check for vitamin D deficiency, but will offer a supplement if a patient is concerned they might be high risk.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
This difference suggests that taking a daily fiber supplement may be easier to incorporate into a regular routine than following a structured exercise program.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The few hundred dollars a month credited to a card she could use at supermarkets allowed her to supplement her modest retirement funds and keep her family afloat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I think of the I-bonds as a supplement to Social Security. That’s real income.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The hospital nutritionist wanted to give them a nutritional supplement through a feeding tube that would be inserted through their nose.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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It does not establish that taking vitamin A supplements can improve sharp vision in adults.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
I’ll take my supplements and I’ll pull up the shade on my terrace and watch the sunrise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Saskia is now taking vitamin D supplements regularly - and is back in goal.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Pre-Covid data, when adjusted for inflation, show that wage compensation—total wages and salaries plus supplements such as employer contributions to pensions and savings plans—closely tracked productivity gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Newspapers could now print illustrations cheaply and well, and they all ran illustrated supplements on the theft.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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When researchers supplemented the animals' diets with LPC70, several of these effects were reduced.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
But with their capabilities supplemented by human teleoperators, Tau’s robots climbed with deliberate accuracy, albeit a little slowly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Voting-rights groups supplemented a parallel suit to challenge the rule as well.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Robust U.S. domestic crude production, supplemented by imports from Canada, Venezuela and elsewhere, has provided American refiners with sufficient feedstock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
His preaching income was supplemented by freightyard work and he was called for an early shift.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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In January, Boeing unveiled a new MAX production line in Everett, Washington, supplementing output for a plane that had previously been assembled exclusively in Renton, Washington.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Ruby says North Dakota exceeds the national standard on some benefits, such as supplementing Social Security checks for workers whose injuries prevent them from contributing payroll taxes to that system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The ratio was changed a bit—ground ops were supplementing the air war, not the other way around; but still the ground ops were necessary.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Scientists still do not know whether boosting Menin or supplementing with D-serine could safely slow aging or improve cognition in people.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
I wondered if maybe he was an actor supplementing his income.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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