layer
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Fund it with appreciated stock instead of cash and you add another layer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"We believe vaccination has the potential to provide an important new layer of protection against this debilitating disease," Pfizer's chief vaccines officer, Annaliesa Anderson, said in a joint statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Far away from the core is the Sun's outermost layer or corona where the temperature is about 2 million C - it can sometimes go up to 40 million C.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The duo layer backing tracks until they seemingly collapse, like the dueling accenting rhythms of “Soledad” or the spacey and spectacular “Sensación,” which reaches a level of yearning that Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” couldn’t buy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The gale force wind tore the crests from the rollers, covering the men and boats with a layer of ice.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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It comprises a chocolate shell with biscuit pieces, chocolate and vanilla ice cream layers, and a caramel lava centre which he describes as "four dimensional".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
And then watching that kind of crumble, those layers are peeled apart based off of what happens to her and what she sees happen to her friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
For Rideaux, the tattoos have layers of meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Researchers around the world have explored several possible solutions, including different dielectric materials, molecular seed layers, and alternative methods for depositing oxides.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
This energy remained trapped in layers of atmosphere for twenty to thirty miles away from the volcano.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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High-density and layered concrete barriers can be useful around ground systems, power-generation units, ammunition storage facilities and barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
It’s a true crime story on some level but Goode says the series is more layered and complex than his previous projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
That possibility offers a more layered picture of prehistoric cave art.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Part of the problem is a lack of layered characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s a hologram floating above the desk, of three stacked circles, like a layered cake.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Saar’s dear friend, artist and jeweler Neil Lane, recalls how she taught him to collage: slowly layering papers with matte medium and, of course, saving every scrap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"At the Japan Trench, the geologic layering basically predetermines where the fault will form," said study co-author Patrick Fulton, an associate professor in Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
From the scaffolding, restorers have been meticulously filling in damaged portions of the frescoes and conservatively layering paint over bare sections with delicate brushes, their hands protected by gloves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
In such a city, identity was less an inheritance than a layering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And started layering on another story of bricks.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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