bolstering

Example Sentences

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Pyongyang closed its borders in January 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus, with research and media reports indicating that the diplomatically isolated nation spent subsequent years bolstering security along its frontiers.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

This could include raising the agricultural minimum wage, increasing the California Employment Development Department’s program oversight capacity, and bolstering legal protections for undocumented farmworkers organizing for better working conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Professor Lucy Chappell, chief scientific adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care and chief executive officer of the National Institute for Health and Care Research, said the trial was "bolstering our pandemic resilience".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

They have significantly more social supports, from family to school to media representation, bolstering their views that they have bright futures, if they play their cards right.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

She ransacked her memory for some bolstering saying of Agatha Swanburne’s—something about vain plumage, perhaps?—but came up empty.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood