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fortify

[fawr-tuh-fahy] / ˈfɔr təˌfaɪ /




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But Christian Rood of LeydenJar says companies like his can fortify Europe's position in what has become a global contest.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The company needs to get Starship regularly flying to handle lunar missions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, fortify its Starlink network and, in the future, deploy AI data centers in space.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

The Greens made a key alliance with the Triarchy to fortify its naval forces.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Commerce Department committed $2 billion to fortify the domestic supply chain.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

For a while she simply stands there before tending to the shampooing of her hair, the soaping of her softening, slightly shrinking fifty-three-year-old body, which she must fortify each morning with calcium pills.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Prebiotic fiber, from sources like legumes, fortifies the good bacteria in your digestive system and, in turn, benefits your metabolism and immune system.

From MarketWatch May 10, 2026

Water may be scarce, and climate change may be ushering in more extreme droughts, but this landscape fortifies them.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2024

A shrinking and aging population has huge implications for the economy and for national security as Japan fortifies its military to counter China’s increasingly assertive territorial ambitions.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2023

In a parallel to the sequence in which Bill fortifies his neighborhood, we see Joel and Ellie stock up for their road trip, grabbing clean clothes, toilet paper, deodorant and other basics.

From New York Times Jan. 29, 2023

"He fortifies his theory by such a wealth of exact observation and experiments that the reader who follows his demonstration carefully can hardly fail of conviction."

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

Iodized table salt is mined from underground deposits, processed to remove other minerals and fortified with iodine, which is important for thyroid health and proper hormone production.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The civil war has seeded instability across Myanmar, creating fertile ground for organised crime groups running transnational scam operations to set up shop in fortified compounds, according to monitors.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

These weapons allow the US to conduct precision strikes against hardened military targets, such as command bunkers or fortified military facilities, without putting manned aircraft in harm's way.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

In 1944 the British Royal Air Force targeted the palace directly while the boy king sheltered in a fortified bunker.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Early said slowly, “To move this entire Corps, in the face of a fortified enemy?”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Mr. Warrick revisits the outlaw, fortifying the story with declassified Central Intelligence Agency cables, police depositions and his own interview with Ramírez.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Japan plays a critical role: It hosts major American bases and has been steadily fortifying its southwestern flank, a chain of islands stretching from Okinawa to Yonaguni, some 70 miles from Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

Iran has been fortifying an underground complex near one of its nuclear facilities, according to analysis of new satellite images.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2026

Pointedly, there was Timothy Snyder’s tidy pocket-sized handbook “On Tyranny” filled with 20 short but fortifying chapters of practical wisdom like “Do not obey in advance,” “Defend institutions” and “Believe in truth.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2025

The forest itself, ten miles across, was a tangled thicket of trees and thorny underbrush honeycombed with German tunnels, concrete dugouts, and machine-gun nests that the Germans had spent four years fortifying.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman




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