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fortify

[fawr-tuh-fahy] / ˈfɔr təˌfaɪ /




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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 drove iron stakes into the ground to fortify the chicken coop against future mink attacks and treasured the few eggs he gathered every morning.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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