reinforce
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Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
“The commission has concerns that the measure may consolidate or indirectly reinforce EDF’s market power,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
When these paths align, the waves can either reinforce or cancel each other, forming a pattern of bright and dark bands.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026
“Ongoing tensions continue to support higher prices, stoke inflation concerns, and reinforce expectations that policymakers may delay easing, or even tighten, monetary policy.”
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Another zeppelin, meanwhile, had found a clear space farther down the valley, and the crossbow men who disembarked from it were now running up the path to reinforce those already in action.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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