fortify

Example Sentences

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After a bruising property downturn and years of economic uncertainty, families appear determined to fortify their balance sheets first — and spend later.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

New software techniques and extensions need to be developed to detect and fortify quantum programs against security threats.

From Science Daily • Jan. 20, 2026

Discovery has a massive library of popular and classic films along with durable TV series such as “Friends,” that would fortify Paramount’s own streaming platform Paramount+.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

“Even as you succumb to the other person’s powerful influence, you feel an equal and opposite impulse to bolster your own identity, to fortify yourself—in a sense, to push back.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

He and his twin brother Zethus undertook once to fortify Thebes, building a lofty wall around it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton