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He has tried to fortify the land, closing off gateways, putting in concrete blocks or piles of logs, and digging rows of deep ditches to make it undrivable.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Eric Lauer, imported to fortify a starting rotation without Glasnow and Snell, worked six innings to record the victory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Whey protein concentrate, a powder that has long been used to fortify sports drinks and infant formula, packs a high-protein punch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Commerce Department committed $2 billion to fortify the domestic supply chain.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Each man was weighed down with sixty pounds of equipment, including picks, shovels, and sandbags judged necessary to fortify enemy positions that, according to Haig’s plan, had already been conquered for them by the artillery.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

It’s what fortifies our bodies and keeps us curious.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

Prebiotic fiber, from sources like legumes, fortifies the good bacteria in your digestive system and, in turn, benefits your metabolism and immune system.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

A shrinking and aging population has huge implications for the economy and for national security as Japan fortifies its military to counter China’s increasingly assertive territorial ambitions.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

This fortifies the inversion as it squeezes downward on the marine layer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023

It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

Iodized table salt is mined from underground deposits, processed to remove other minerals and fortified with iodine, which is important for thyroid health and proper hormone production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“If you need to destroy a bridge or any fortified facility, you can’t use a drone,” said Mikhail Kokorich, chief executive of Destinus, a Netherlands-based defense company whose drone and missiles are used by Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"Confidence and reciprocity are beginning to take shape to open the door to engagement on the most difficult issues," says Gagnon whom we meet inside the UN's vast, heavily fortified compound.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The civil war has seeded instability across Myanmar, creating fertile ground for organised crime groups running transnational scam operations to set up shop in fortified compounds, according to monitors.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

These includes fortifying homes against wildfires, replanting fire-ravaged forests and thinning out vegetation with prescribed burns, goat grazing and manual thinning with heavy machinery to reduce the intensity of potential fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Nearly as many said they were fortifying the grid against severe weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

There are limits to physically fortifying the cables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Iran has been fortifying an underground complex near one of its nuclear facilities, according to analysis of new satellite images.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

I had worked upon my hands and knees, stooped it seemed for days, fortifying Breed’s and Winter’s Hills, raising works upon the scarred streets of Roxbury near Boston Neck.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson