fix
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The plans include a short-term fix for an ailing reservoir and longer-term efforts to keep the river flowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I just print it out this morning and fix it back up and it works completely perfect,” says Roggatz, a drawing inspector for a construction company, adding that the device is now stronger than before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Right now, there’s little appetite for many of the plans that policymakers and others have proposed to fix the shortfall.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"If a true friend like Huckabee has to bang on the table, then all of us need to stop and ask how it happened that we lost our way, and fix it immediately," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I don’t know of any resources that could help me fix what I screwed up with Jonah or Avery.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
For Leon Berkers, whose restaurant boat has been stuck in the mud for more than a month, adaptation has so far meant improvising fixes to keep "pots and pans from flying around."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Better fixes are already reverberating, such as requiring domestic frontier labs to license “distillation” for U.S. builders of open-weight competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
As part of “By the People,” Slate’s series exploring how Americans can reclaim the Constitution and the law, Alexis Romero outlined three possible fixes for an out-of-control Supreme Court.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
A Daera spokesperson said that while there are "no quick fixes", restoring and protecting the ecological health of water bodies "is possible by respecting the science and supporting the difficult decisions needed".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The Obayifo fixes its hungry gaze onto us.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The longer the deployment, the list of issues that need to be fixed grows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Burnham believes the funding of palliative and social care should be "fixed" before assisted dying is considered.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Over many decades, homeowners benefited handsomely from leverage, because they were able to borrow cheaply for 30 years at low fixed interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Typically, there are fixed payouts and the price of the contract reflects the market’s expectation of the odds of the outcome.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mr. Haber’s gaze scoured the room until his eyes fixed on me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
But all in vain, no counsel will prevail; H'as fixt himself, there's no removing, Jaques, 'Twill prove but breath and labor spent in vain, I'll to my horse, farewell.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb by Francis Beaumont
It is said that Peggy, on hearing this, stopt washing the plate she had in her hands, and twisting the towel around her fingers, fixt her small pale blue eyes on the lawyer.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
His mallice is fixt, and will not evaporate by any your mild courses.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
Two young persons, neighbors of opulent families, had been long betrothed, and the marriage-day had been fixt for Sunday, the fatal 4th of November.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
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
Driscoll, who is also a member of Patriotic Millionaires, an advocacy group of high-net-worth individuals focused on the country’s economy, said fixing Social Security is an obligation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her son Nick, who is nearly 40, adds: "They just seemed completely overwhelmed, the hospitals. The wait times are huge so I'd rather they focus and spend money on fixing the NHS."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Yet in a bizarre case of fixing something that does not need fixing, the program became the one CBS property executives chose to radically remake.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“As a business gets bigger, there are unique challenges that pop up, so I’m not naive to those things and spend a lot of time just making sure we’re fixing things,” said LaFontaine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“But it’s not like you to get so wrapped up in local concerns,” Nan said, fixing me with her eyes.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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