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[fiks] / fɪks /










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In her 20s, she lived in a group house where the landlord refused to fix anything.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Maybe the one issue on which there is consensus in Washington is that federal permitting is dysfunctional, but lawmakers have struggled to agree on how to fix it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Cambridge University graduate took aim at tech industry culture, saying companies "run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later."

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Hall of Famer Gary Patterson hasn’t been able to fix it yet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“You fix this,” she said, and when Julio responded that he was just a physical therapist and this had nothing to do with him, she said, “Well, it does now.”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

But fixes made by Boeing to the jet reassured him of the safety of the aircraft, which he has flown since they went back into service—right up until Wednesday’s flight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The timelines for when vets need to bring in the fixes depends on the exact regulation and the group's size.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

County officials were previously warned about flaws — yet few fixes have been made.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

And after any fixes, the entire 746-mile pipeline will have to be pressure-tested, and all components checked and cleared before meaningful throughput can resume, Shah added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mama’s voice sings from behind me, and Layla quickly fixes her face.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

"He was not just in it for money. He quite explicitly wants something very particular in return for his work - he wanted his criminal conviction in Iran to be fixed," Jones told the jury.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The prosecution said that is "an entirely bogus claim", adding that he did it for money and to have a criminal conviction for theft in Iran "fixed".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Still, the portfolio manager believes that lower-duration, more credit-sensitive assets continue to offer a more attractive risk-return for investors than traditional fixed income.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Things briefly were looking better Friday, said Yulia Alekseeva, head of fixed income at MissionSquare, after the labor-market report.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

The cub’s eyes were fixed on the darkness: ears rigid, hackles raised.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The Pronator Inferior Quadratus, springing forth from the bottom and inside of the Cubitus, is fixt in the lower and outward part of the Radius by a Tail as large as its Head.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

Heere is fixt the epitaph of Sir Henry Kebyll, Knight, Who was sometime of London Maior, a famous worthy wight, Which did this Aldermarie Church erect and set upright.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

How grows their beauty, when two lovers stand Eye fixt on eye, hand fondly linkt in hand!

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa

How were his eyes with pleasing wonder fixt, To see such fire with so much sweetness mixt!

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

And which of the Officers was it as first fixt my gaze, and held it firmly?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various

Surgery can repair the torn ligament, but fixing the immediate injury does not necessarily prevent long-term joint damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

For Le Maire, any chance of fixing France’s finances was now gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Naval Academy, having deemed GPS dependable, stopped teaching midshipmen celestial navigation—the discipline of fixing a ship’s position based on timed sightings of the sun and the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The 18 large leaks Buckley mentioned fixing account for more than 142,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide prevented from entering the atmosphere, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I should have felt happy or excited or just right, because I was so close to fixing my family and putting everything back together, just the way it was supposed to be.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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