supplement
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With that in mind they are not expected to sign a third left-back to supplement their squad.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“If they are able to surpass, for example, Algebra 1 or wherever they are, we are able to supplement the curriculum, challenging them constantly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In this way, very high doses of vitamin C behave less like a daily supplement and more like a weak, selective chemotherapy drug.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The curfew would supplement a social media ban on under-16s announced by Starmer in June, covering sites including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
When the food ration is reduced, we supplement it by buying food from the Thai market at the edge of the camp.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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Some cosmetics, medicines and supplements contain gelatin, animal fats, alcohol or other ingredients whose origins matter to observant consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Her Anima Mundi Herbals is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the company manufactures herbal tinctures, elixirs, teas, herbal supplements and other botanicals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
On a recent weekday, about two dozen foreign attendees worked on laptops in the Network School’s cafe, which sold health supplements including creatine and collagen peptides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Despite claiming the supplements were manufactured in the US, they were actually imported from China, India and several other countries.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Both sets of ideas passed into the public imagination through Sunday supplements and science fiction.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Portland supplemented the federal construction money with local dollars, creating incentives that were hard to turn down.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The story isn’t the strong suit of “Hell’s Kitchen,” which is powered by Alicia Keys’ versatile catalog, which has been supplemented with original material.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Leone Hadavi, a senior investigator and weapons expert for the Centre for Information Resilience, said these commercial parts are also supplemented with components made using 3D printers.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Its sales are now supplemented by mNexspike, a next-generation vaccine designed for the current respiratory virus season.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
He supplemented his soup and rice with canned C rations he’d brought with him: familiar American food like beans and franks, even if he had to eat it cold from the can.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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The ratio was changed a bit—ground ops were supplementing the air war, not the other way around; but still the ground ops were necessary.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Culhane recommends faster approval of SSI benefits and supplementing that income with additional sources of rental assistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Triple-feeding aims to increase production by breastfeeding the baby, followed by supplementing - usually by bottle - with expressed milk or formula, before pumping for 15 minutes.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Scientists still do not know whether boosting Menin or supplementing with D-serine could safely slow aging or improve cognition in people.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Meanwhile masons and carpenters were at work building a large and stately new boathouse, Haus West, just east of the permanent grandstands, supplementing two large existing boathouses, Haus Mitte and Haus Ost.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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