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as in glue
a substance used to stick things together
what kind of cement works best on glass and pottery?
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as in bond
a uniting or binding force or influence
she is the cement that holds that often quarrelsome group together
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as in to weld
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Recent Examples of cement
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
Students Ron Kammeyer and Perry Schaefer came up with the winning design, and with 30 fellow students, spent a few weeks painting the mural on the sloping cement face of the dam.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026
David Wickert, AJC.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Penn and his One Battle After Another cast and crew celebrated big victories on Sunday night, with the film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy to cement itself as the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Other areas include decarbonizing cement, steel and chemicals, as well as disaster-resilient housing, wildfire mitigation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable farming.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
Students Ron Kammeyer and Perry Schaefer came up with the winning design, and with 30 fellow students, spent a few weeks painting the mural on the sloping cement face of the dam.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
If approved by the General Assembly, the tax relief and budget proposals would cement Kemp’s legacy of returning money to taxpayers.
—David Wickert, AJC.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Penn and his One Battle After Another cast and crew celebrated big victories on Sunday night, with the film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy to cement itself as the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cement
Noun
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The fruit flies are attracted to them and get stuck on the sticky glue.—
Emma Ashe,
Southern Living,
30 Jan. 2026
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Historic specialist Wacoal introduced the Flawless line, with new technologies like ultrasound bonding, which removes the need for glue or seams, and its thinnest shapewear fabrics, offered in a range of forms.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
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China has taken measures to make the renminbi more attractive to foreign investors, such as increasing access to Chinese securities like stocks, bonds and commodities, and streamlining cross-border payments.—
Stephanie Yang,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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By recognizing pets as family members and supporting the bond between people and pets, organizations can humanize themselves, making strides toward a healthier, more compassionate and connected workplace—one paw and one pet at a time.—
Marissa Andrada,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2026
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In the steel shell of a former dormitory and, more recently, nursing home, water collects in buckets as construction crews hammer and drill, saw and weld, and heavy machinery works to cover a series of underground water retention systems, consisting of huge pipes.—
Wheeler Cowperthwaite,
The Providence Journal,
21 Jan. 2026
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It can be produced when fires burn through certain types of soil or rock, as well as during industrial processes like welding.—
Alejandra Borunda,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2026
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Roorbach was escorted everywhere on set after the adhesive was set.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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In automotive use, upholstery is usually bonded to plastic substrates, with foam backing and adhesives.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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Natalie Wu
Valentina Duarte,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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This architecture fuses the battery and processing units through entanglement, creating a unified quantum link in which power and logic coexist.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The formula combines rice bran, candelilla, and carnauba wax with advanced tubing technology for smooth, clump-free application.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2026
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The legislation combines five full-year funding bills with the two-week extension of DHS.—
Eric Lau,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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Don’t reply to letters or emails asking you to wire or transfer money to your bank account.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2026
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The artwork must be wired and ready for hanging with the center of the hanging wire at least 1 1/2 inches from the top of the piece.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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These highly regulated, intricate environments are where adoption achieves scale and economic power coalesces.—
Sahar Hashmi,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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This is the telltale signature of Δ resonances decaying into pion-nucleon pairs that then coalesce into deuterons.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Cement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cement. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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