reinforced

variants also reenforced
past tense of reinforce
as in confirmed
to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea) letters of recommendation that reinforced the committee's opinion of the candidate

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Recent Examples of reinforced As an example, over the most recent summer, Ko Itakura and Alassane Plea, the team’s best centre-back and most important utility attacker respectively, were both sold, with the squad being reinforced only with cheaper, unproven players. Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage. Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2025 The way their presence reinforced the structural work on the silhouette struck him. Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025 In woodpeckers and other birds, the wing joints are reinforced by a network of soft, prestressed connective tissue that helps absorb shocks from collisions with obstacles. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025 Data on job growth continues to fall short of forecasts, and downward revisions to past figures from the Department of Labor have reinforced the view that the Fed may need to stimulate consumer spending, lower borrowing costs and encourage investment to prevent a labor market crisis. Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 To add, recent budgetary investments in clean tech and sustainable finance have reinforced this momentum. Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 However, the company has since reinforced its long-term commitment to the country and made great efforts to restore its standing in the local market. Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025 But the windows were replaced, reinforced and cleaned up. Mary Clare Jalonick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reinforced
Verb
  • Rivas Hernandez was first reported missing on April 5, 2024 as confirmed by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office to the Los Angeles Times.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The man, whose position CNN confirmed independently, said he could be arrested too, but that would not stop the business.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Several companies, including Ace Hardware and power tool makers Milwaukee Tool and STIHL, have supported the New York measure as a way to help offset the costs of lawn care companies replacing older equipment.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Public opinion broadly supported Democrats at the time of the dispute that turned into the longest shutdown in the nation’s history.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • The recall effort was significantly bolstered by Democracy in Action, a political action group which collected about half of the necessary signatures, spending more than $30,000 in the process.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
  • That effort will be bolstered by the return of starting running back Gabe Abel and fullback Cam Miller, who will make their season debuts after sitting out due to injuries.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • Murdoch’s media muscle has been increasingly buttressed by his Wall Street Journal revenues as well as those of the doctrinaire Fox News.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So that needs to be buttressed.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 24 Aug. 2025
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  • Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified by TIME.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • Batie-Smoose corroborated this to Fox News Digital.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Medical examiners corroborated this version of events upon her arrest.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two Democrats, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Senator John Fetterman, have already backed the Republican bill to keep the government open in the short-term on current terms while fuller appropriations bargaining takes place.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has revealed how startups backed by their research achievements drive innovation.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Reinforced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reinforced. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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