shoring

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Recent Examples of shoring The shoring up of gun control laws in Canada came after the May 2020 ban of 1,500 makes and models of firearms. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024 For example, the list notes that much of the temporary shoring to reinforce the floor has been removed, and the remaining floor work is nearly complete. Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 13 June 2024 The plan would allocate $1 billion towards flooding mitigation for Metro-North service, including more sophisticated drainage systems at the Mott Haven Yard and the shoring up of retaining walls and sea walls where the Hudson Line hugs the river’s edge. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2024 However, for certain types of leather footwear, particularly in the premium and luxury segments, near-shoring to Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and a few other countries in the Americas can be economically viable today. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for shoring
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoring
Noun
  • Essentially, gasket mounting is when a keyboard’s plate is held into the case around its edges, using strips of foam on either side to isolate the plate from the main case.
    Henri Robbins, Wired News, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The case is lightweight yet highly impact-resistant, providing uniform protection during long filming sessions, travel, or mounting.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ensuring officials have the mental and technological support for making big decisions in big matches with big consequences?
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • All face charges of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and additional juvenile cases may be under seal.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Bucs hope that switching up the coaching staff, adding more reinforcements through free agency and most importantly, keeping the main leader in place, could bode well for 2026.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Training begins in a simulated environment using reinforcement learning, where the robot improves by trial and error.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Beyond the gong, other bits of prop comedy give them cover to dive into more controversial topics.
    Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The items include bed frames, bedding, pillows, white-noise machines, area rugs, desk chairs, TVs and TV mounts.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • When staffing dips, the pressure mounts.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Dumbbell Shoulder Press Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, and brace your core and squeeze your butt.
    Greg Presto, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Pam takes a seat in a blue-and-chrome chair and looks at Bella as a tiny girl on the beach and Bella in her choir robe and Bella smiling with braces on her teeth.
    Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Starlight continues to raise money As part of phase one, two new towers designed to hold the production truss were finished this year.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2025
  • His first assignment is the Kane Brown concert where a truss has fallen over the production crew and band.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At a number of events on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In this era, ogival windows and flying buttresses would be more bracing than yet another thicket of computerized-looking shapes.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Shoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoring. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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