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
After graduating from Egypt's Al-Azhar University, Dangote started trading in cement, rice and sugar.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
He recently won three beautification awards for a Rancho Santa Fe home where he replaced foundation plants with boulders, gravel, cement pots and flameproof steel plant sculptures with internal lighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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
I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks in the sidewalk.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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His landmark concert at Wembley further cements his status as a global star.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
The deal cements Chevron’s lead in the race among major oil companies to bank on the data-center boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
While Thinking Machines was already working with Nvidia chips to develop its models, the new partnership further cements the startup as a customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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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Tesla and SpaceX are considering a merger where, presumably, Musk’s total control would be cemented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Rising inflation has cemented expectations that the Bank of England will hike its benchmark interest rate next month, further pressuring Britons holding loans, including mortgages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Starting with Three Billboards, he cemented a relationship with Searchlight Pictures that continued with Banshees and now Wild Horse Nine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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 look in Jonah’s eyes belie it though, and it shatters me a little more, knowing that in choosing to put myself first, I’ve cemented Jonah’s inability to do the same.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and his allies on Friday claimed an easy victory in the union’s election, cementing Fain’s leadership of one of the most powerful forces in American organized labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Technically, they were still Witchlings until their circle was sealed, cementing them as a true coven.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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