beef up

Example Sentences

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And although their success has come from the draft, that also means spending some money in free agency, as they did last year to beef-up their defence with Trey Hendrickson, Mike Hilton and Chidobe Awuzie among others.

From BBC

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