beef up
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Ark Invest meanwhile shuffled its portfolio on Tuesday by cutting its already-tiny holdings in Apple, Amazon, Taiwan Semiconductor and Google-owner Alphabet to beef-up its Tesla stake on Wednesday.
From Reuters
We don’t need to beef-up our military because the U.S. is coming to our aid,’” said Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert and political scientist at Davidson College in North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times
We’ve got an extremely low unemployment rate, so there aren’t as many folks needing to beef-up their educational credentials to find better work.
From Washington Times
The carrier program is a key part of China’s naval expansion at a time when it is looking to beef-up its regional military influence to match its economic might.
From Washington Times
The funding would allow the Causeway to beef-up railings on the southbound span and add sections of shoulder on both bridges.
From Washington Times
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