beef up
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Syntagma Square, in the heart of the Greek capital, was closed to traffic, with a heavy police presence to beef up security, AFP photographers saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“They’re going to need to beef up how they talk about safety and preventing some of the issues that are described in some of these tweets,” Martin told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
We expected they’d beef up their scouting department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"As part of that we are looking at what we might do to support and beef up our social media team."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Maybe their planes would be taken away to beef up an existing men’s regiment, and they’d be back to square one looking for a way to volunteer.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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