supplement
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Doctors don't routinely offer blood tests to check for vitamin D deficiency, but will offer a supplement if a patient is concerned they might be high risk.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
This difference suggests that taking a daily fiber supplement may be easier to incorporate into a regular routine than following a structured exercise program.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
The few hundred dollars a month credited to a card she could use at supermarkets allowed her to supplement her modest retirement funds and keep her family afloat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“I think of the I-bonds as a supplement to Social Security. That’s real income.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Our food supply is reduced to only a few pounds of rice so Meng, Khouy, and Kim have to forage for other food to supplement the rice.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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I’ll take my supplements and I’ll pull up the shade on my terrace and watch the sunrise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
After taking supplements, Amaka feels a lot better, but she is anxious in case it happens again.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The results also do not suggest that fiber supplements should replace exercise or other established arthritis treatments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
He said the French plan “doesn’t replace anything. It supplements the nuclear guarantees that were already there” from the U.S. nuclear umbrella.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
“The vet didn’t know what to make of it. He told me to keep giving him the supplements and the vitamins, but that basically he’s a medical miracle.”
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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When researchers supplemented the animals' diets with LPC70, several of these effects were reduced.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
But with their capabilities supplemented by human teleoperators, Tau’s robots climbed with deliberate accuracy, albeit a little slowly.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
And so, when they ended up in front of miraculous testimonials of healing, often supplemented by A.I.-generated photos or videos, they took it seriously.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Over the years, my mother and I have supplemented his income.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Aspects of the performance were rated as either superior, excellent, good, or fair—they got mostly superiors—and the grades were supplemented with comments.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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In January, Boeing unveiled a new MAX production line in Everett, Washington, supplementing output for a plane that had previously been assembled exclusively in Renton, Washington.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
But the ultimate outcome is that instead of supplementing annuities, people don’t buy them at all.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Ruby says North Dakota exceeds the national standard on some benefits, such as supplementing Social Security checks for workers whose injuries prevent them from contributing payroll taxes to that system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The ratio was changed a bit—ground ops were supplementing the air war, not the other way around; but still the ground ops were necessary.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Bible has much to teach, yet professors must use it judiciously, supplementing it with other sources, when they teach ancient Middle Eastern history.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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