reinforce
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Each time employees outsource a decision or solution, they reinforce a habit of reliance that, collectively, makes the organization increasingly dependent on a few individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The city said it would provide sandbags at three locations and encouraged residents with private seawalls to reinforce them if necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
For Vicinanza, the new findings reinforce the relationship between traditional food practices and modern discoveries about how the body functions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Skeptics could still support it for a human-centric reason, because mistreating AI systems could reinforce bad habits that make it more likely for those systems to mistreat humans.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Alberto was assigned to reinforce the pen, which was then personally inspected by Father, followed by yet another talk with Travis behind closed doors.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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“This appointment reinforces LA28’s commitment to harness the unparalleled creativity, cultural influence and storytelling power of the entertainment capital of the world,” an announcement from the Olympic organizers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Instead, she said that the "first key consideration was energy security", as the Middle East crisis reinforces the importance of "home-grown energy".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
September’s core consumer price index reading of 2.57% year-over-year reinforces Morgan Stanley’s emphasis on quality.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
For now, the research reinforces the importance of exercise while revealing that its benefits depend on an intricate network of molecular processes inside muscle cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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But Tuesday’s 136-129 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers reinforced that even one of the best offensive backcourts in the league can totally compensate for a championship-winning defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Members of the Bush team say that his refusal to blame anyone except himself reinvigorated their efforts and reinforced their loyalty to the man who had shown loyalty to them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"The June primary reinforced how quickly expectations about election outcomes can become confused with actual election results," said Michael Sanchez, spokesman for Los Angeles County's registrar's office.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The club's power brokers ignored a clamour to bring in more striking support in the summer and instead reinforced Carrick's midfield.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
My father’s death had proved that fact, and Yakov’s had only reinforced it.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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“Data creation, retention and reuse continue to compound storage demand with long term customer demand visibility reinforcing our view of a multiyear growth phase,” Chief Executive Officer Dave Mosley said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The leadership in the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda will celebrate the King and his work in protecting rainforests, creating cultural ties and reinforcing relationships around trade, energy, and agriculture.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The second phase started Tuesday as crews began reinforcing the slope by buttressing it at the base and armoring it with rocks to hinder slope movement and erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The government meanwhile welcomed the polling date announcements as an "important stage ... towards reinforcing the country's democratic system".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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