supplement
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You want this money to supplement your retirement income and as a backup emergency fund.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Daniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
People should also speak with a doctor before beginning any new supplement.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
A key provision is that the new arts money must supplement and not replace money already being spent on the arts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Scarlett was carrying a large picture book, and she sat next to her mother on the green bench near the gates, and she read her book while her mother inspected an educational supplement.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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Despite claiming the supplements were manufactured in the US, they were actually imported from China, India and several other countries.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Placebos were given to the control group and to participants who received only one of the two supplements.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
But having a strong farm system supplements big spending.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Three years ago, the FDA placed restrictions on 14 peptides over safety risks, meaning they now fall somewhere between the unregulated world of supplements and the highly structured process of testing new drugs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
She stopped to browse through the shelf of role-playing game supplements.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Portland supplemented the federal construction money with local dollars, creating incentives that were hard to turn down.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The wall will be supplemented by electronic surveillance and other devices, which would be installed by "about July, maybe at the latest August 2028," Scott said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Troha then gave another group of mice chow supplemented with methionine.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
It will build a historical archive of memories, a social history of royal events, and will be supplemented by a digitised version of the "court circular", which records the working lives of the Royal Family.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
When Nikolaus Otto built his first gas engine, in 1866, horses had been supplying people’s land transportation needs for nearly 6,000 years, supplemented increasingly by steam-powered railroads for several decades.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Scientists still do not know whether boosting Menin or supplementing with D-serine could safely slow aging or improve cognition in people.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
The Dodgers are supplementing where they can, picking up three pitchers cut by their former clubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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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