cement
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In another step to cement Huerta’s legacy, one of her nonprofits broke ground in 2025 for the Dolores Huerta Peace & Justice Cultural Center in Bakersfield, the San Joaquin Valley city she called home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
When amazing breakthroughs lead to high valuations, companies rush to sell lots of shares so they can cement a dominant position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Here we are, two decades on, watching her documentary further cement Sofia’s film as the modern classic it is.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Swiss cement maker Holcim is being sued by residents of an Indonesian island being eroded by rising sea levels.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ana catches up with me on the long cement walkway that leads from the gym to the cafeteria.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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This comes at a time when Beijing is polishing its image abroad as it cements its role as a global power.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
“The data cements the now-consensus view that the ECB will hold fire this month,” Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said in a note to clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
BNP Paribas analyst Moses Sutton wrote after the deal that it cements “Nextpower as the all-around way for investors to play AI-supported solar + storage growth.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
That measure cements the top three income brackets on taxpayers making more than $360,000, with a top rate of 13.3% on millionaires—and all of its revenue would have to go to education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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The results from the Central Elections Committee also cemented the emergence as potential kingmakers of the Arab party groupings Raam and the Joint List, with the two winning a combined 19 seats.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The first Cheesecake Factory opened in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 1978, roughly 17 months before Saddam Hussein formally cemented his grip of power over Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
He received the award in the modest surroundings of Blackpool Town Hall, a low-key affair but one that cemented his legacy.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Herman, a German transplant who has been in L.A. since 1977, is an artist whose vividly rendered paintings cemented him as one of the West Coast leaders of the ’80s neo-Expressionist movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The woman kisses the child good-bye and surrenders him to my mother; then she bolts off, running on the cemented stretches in the park.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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But interest-rate futures indicate that traders still see a roughly 85% chance that the Fed will raise rates by the end of the year, with this week’s hot inflation data only cementing those bets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the film merely gestures to its own unfortunate place in history, without ever cementing it as a tragedy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Houthis have been cementing their hold on the Bab Al-Mandab strait, a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia that has been used as an alternative to Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
On Friday, Microsoft’s stock notched its sixth straight session of gains — rising 6.7% over that multiday period, and cementing its longest winning streak since Oct.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
She threw her arm around my shoulders, cementing our friendship.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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