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[fur-ther] / ˈfɜr ðər /






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Last week, the administration went further, announcing it was temporarily lifting caps on G42’s access to U.S. chips, a major win for the country and for Tahnoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Events can only resume if there are no further lightning strikes for at least 30 minutes.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

EDT on Saturday, that level had dropped further, to 89, posing only a moderate health concern for a very small number of people.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Now Netflix may be planning to expand its global push into live content further, beyond sports.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

She insisted that Maggie limit further involvement with the spirit-skeptical Elisha.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

And Lena reflects an archetypal American figure central to black culture and pride: the matriarch who, against considerable obstacles, holds together a family and furthers its ambitions through her personal integrity and fortitude.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

But Dan Wasiolek, senior equity analyst at Morningstar, told MarketWatch that the deal furthers his belief that prediction-market competition is overstated.

From MarketWatch Jun. 1, 2026

As MMA solidifies, “it produces heat, and then in producing that heat, it furthers the chain reaction, so it keeps going and going and going,” Bernal said.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

Tim Cook steps down as Apple’s CEO, RFK Jr. furthers the peptides fad, and The Onion finally gets InfoWars.

From Slate Apr. 25, 2026

By not interfering with, we know how much it furthers, the administration of Justice.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various

That all the music would be written by Americans—Aaron Copland and John Williams in addition to Mr. Glass—only furthered the patriotic angle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

SpaceX’s stock furthered its decline on Tuesday, extending its recent streak of losses to record a new intraday low.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

One of those Ins for 2024 was finding a creative hobby that furthered my artistic pursuits outside my preferred and beloved relationship with writing.

From Salon Jan. 4, 2025

On a national stage, a few bad actors among the largest Dodger Stadium crowd of the season only furthered the harmful narrative that Chavez Ravine is a place stocked with punks.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2024

The fact that they were exactly alike, that they were surrounded by the same barren hard-packed earth, furthered the illusion.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

The former Jane Doe’s name has now leaked via court documents, furthering an already pronounced imbalance of power.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

Quantum stocks are furthering their gains on Wednesday as investors unpack Nvidia’s recent announcement of Ising, an open-source quantum artificial-intelligence model.

From MarketWatch Apr. 15, 2026

"Like most 18 year olds, I saw university as furthering your education, a chance to better yourself," he said.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2026

But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

After the war Fankuchen lost interest in viruses, and, though Bernal dabbled at protein crystallography, he was more concerned about furthering good relations with the Communist countries.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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