cement

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Blood Orange has consistently penned enough hits to fill an entire set with them, let alone cement himself as one of the mostly highly anticipated performances at this year’s festival.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

When desktop publishing arrived in the 1980s, he was a graphic designer using triangles and rubber cement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

It will also, of course, cement Musk, who is already worth some $817 billion, as history’s first-ever trillionaire.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

“Remember the piccolo,” I whisper, and take shot after shot from the dirt square, from behind the shed, from the place where the weeds grow out of the cement.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko