cement

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Blood Orange has consistently penned enough hits to fill an entire set with them, let alone cement himself as one of the mostly highly anticipated performances at this year’s festival.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

It will also, of course, cement Musk, who is already worth some $817 billion, as history’s first-ever trillionaire.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

During Alonso's tenure, Valverde at times struggled to cement a starting spot in his natural role, being deployed in unfamiliar positions such as right-back.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Stores, shopping centers, garages, furniture outlets, restaurants, quick-food stands: the cement procession marched on, broken only by traffic lights dangling from heavy wires over the roadway.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt