supplementary
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“I’ve been training a little bit more, doing just supplementary things to be able to make sure that I’m in a good place,” Ohtani said after returning to the lineup Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was the first time a Welsh government has lost a vote on a supplementary budget - which is in addition to the main budget exercise that happens in the autumn.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
When we offer supplementary food, such as seeds or meat scraps, this attracts birds of many different species in a combination and number that would not happen in nature.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, fiscal expansion efforts in Japan such as public-private investment and supplementary budgets are poised to build simultaneously, two analysts of JPMorgan’s Global Markets Strategy say in a research report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
This setback had not put a damper on his Himalayan career, however: he’d gone on to climb K2, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Ama Dablam, and, in 1993, Everest without supplementary oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
At once a storm of "supplementaries" broke forth.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 by Various
A long question to the Board of Trade, on the subject of horse-hides, followed by a series of supplementaries delivered with his customary emphasis, showed that he is not yet resigned to his muzzle.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 by Various
The storm of "supplementaries" showed no sign of abating, until the SPEAKER, who rarely fails to find the appropriate phrase, remarked upon "This thirst for information," and so dissolved the House in laughter.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various
Cluster on printed Paper indefinitely extended by supplementaries.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
There were other garments and supplementaries, all treated in the same way.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
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