reinforce
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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
Consumer prices, excluding fresh food, climbed 2.1% in September from a year earlier, which will likely reinforce market views that the Bank of Japan will tighten policy settings in December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Another zeppelin, meanwhile, had found a clear space farther down the valley, and the crossbow men who disembarked from it were now running up the path to reinforce those already in action.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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
Recent Fed communication reinforces Deutsche Bank analysts’ baseline forecast for a quarterly pace of rate hikes through March, rather than a more accelerated sequence, they said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
This reinforces the fundamental truth that the market is incredibly difficult to beat consistently, and therefore that our default investment strategy should be to buy and hold index funds.
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
She reinforces her force field with intent and bares her teeth.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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"They're trying to break me but, paradoxically or not, this campaign has reinforced my decision to enter politics precisely to put an end to this hate-filled rhetoric," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
“This just reinforced the fact that the Fed has more work to do,” Rehling at Wells Fargo said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
The broader analysis also reinforced the earlier finding that an unusually large amount of mass is concentrated near the cluster's center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
And their arguments reinforced the discordant tradition I’d found in Moorland, and I began to see discord, argument, chaos, perhaps even fear, as a kind of power.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell, reinforcing expectations for another interest-rate hike this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
This created a reinforcing cycle in which rising oxygen levels encouraged chemical changes that supported biological growth, which in turn helped maintain atmospheric oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Residents walked and rode bicycles along the boardwalk as dozers and excavators moved along the beach, reinforcing the several-foot-high berms built to protect homes from the ocean waves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The dual embarrassments would have the mutually reinforcing effect of reorienting Ernest and his laboratory toward much more careful research.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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