furthered

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A string of high-profile layoff announcements in which executives have attributed steep job cuts to AI have furthered Americans’ mistrust of the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Workday’s stock has been beaten down by artificial-intelligence fears, and Tuesday’s earnings report only furthered those concerns.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

On a national stage, a few bad actors among the largest Dodger Stadium crowd of the season only furthered the harmful narrative that Chavez Ravine is a place stocked with punks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

At the sentencing, the FBI’s assistant director in charge, David Sundberg thanked "the brave women who shared information that furthered this investigation".

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

And since it doesn’t come naturally to many elementary students, it must be furthered by doing numerous problems, some practical, some more fanciful.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos