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Maintaining an openness to people — and a willingness to strengthen connections with everyone from distant or estranged family members to friends, acquaintances and strangers — enables you to benefit from more social interaction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

"In the coming weeks, we will have a G7 meeting devoted to these energy issues, both to strengthen cooperation and to avoid unnecessary tensions between the G7 countries and our main partners," Macron said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Those molecules helped repair the gut lining, reinforce the intestinal barrier, increase the production of protective mucus and strengthen antimicrobial defenses instead of driving additional inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The drugmaker also plans to use Anthropic’s models to strengthen AI-driven software development, it added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

We had long suspected a clamp-down was coming, and the Congress decided that certain members needed to leave the country to strengthen the organization abroad in anticipation of the time it would be banned entirely.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Denmark's Prime Minister said the deal "strengthens security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic area" but did not address specifics in the agreement that Trump mentioned in a social media post.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys in a post on X thanked allies "whose presence helps protect our skies and strengthens our security".

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 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

This likely strengthens the case for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate at its meeting this week, says Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Belinda Allen in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Snape hesitated, and then said, “I cannot tell. Maybe a year. There is no halting such a spell forever. It will spread eventually, it is the sort of curse that strengthens over time.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Other work has strengthened the case that communication between the hypothalamus and the rest of the body can influence aging.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Russia-North Korea relationship was strengthened last week with the opening of the first road bridge between the two countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Since stores’ private-label fare sells for less than nationally marketed offerings, shoppers, historically, have flocked to them whenever the economy slumped, and away from them when the economy strengthened.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Oil prices continued to rise as Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline stayed shut, while Houthi militants in Yemen strengthened their position around the Red Sea corridor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Because he did not look up to ask if it pleased he did it all for himself inside, and it strengthened him, and yet he did it for her, too.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

One of those was International IDEA, an intergovernmental organization based in Stockholm and devoted to supporting and strengthening democracy around the world.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

In recent weeks, the Houthis have seized territory, including an island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, strengthening their ability to interfere with Saudi Red Sea oil shipments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It seized control of significant new territory across Yemen's south-western coast last week, including areas overlooking the crucial Bab al-Mandab waterway, strengthening its ability to enforce its declared blockade of Saudi shipping.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Their scale may make fixed testing and compliance costs easier to absorb than they would be for smaller laboratories, potentially strengthening their positions even as AI projects take longer to generate returns.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

We have removed the rot, we are strengthening the foundations.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers