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shoring

noun

Definition of shoring

as in shore

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Recent Examples of shoring Emergency shoring was installed from the 18th through 23rd floors, including structural steel shoring columns on the 21st and 22nd floors, and light-duty shoring posts on four other floors, the DOB said on Wednesday. — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 8 July 2026 Contractors can move forward with installation of temporary shoring on the under-construction New York City high-rise after columns buckled inside. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 Fire crews determined no shoring was needed and began clearing the scene. — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2026 Alex Foster, a spokeswoman for Denver’s Community Planning and Development department, or CPD, said the city agency ordered SF Partners to obtain an emergency permit allowing temporary shoring and stabilization of the garage. — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shoring

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Noun

The weapon begins spinning violently, dragging the service member around before throwing him several yards from the mounting.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
After that, there are further stages including preparation, conservation, and mounting.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of mounting

Noun

The actors Nael Nacer and Artemis Pebdani double as Haddad’s great-aunt and -uncle and parents, playing across a spectrum of discomfort and cautious support.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
Its adaptable architecture supports missions including tactical logistics, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, casualty evacuation, communications support and other mission-critical applications.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of support

Noun

Police reinforcements were sent from the capital, Brussels, and from Antwerp, and more are coming.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
Namely, a desperate need for pitching reinforcements and a belief that Holmes’ profile would mesh with their Gold Glove infielders.

— Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of reinforcement

Noun

Topstep, a futures prop-trading firm, disclosed in March that roughly 17% of evaluations started in 2025 were successfully completed.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Those range from the macro-industrial such as aircraft parts and underwater pipelines to the micro-medical such as stents that prop open bodily channels for bodily fluids.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of prop

Noun

As endless suspicion mounts in multiple directions, this genre-bending true crime series explores society’s explosive obsession with true crime.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
As internal discontent mounts, Chinese leaders will look to deflect it, framing the root cause as America’s civilizational rejection of China’s rise.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of mount

Noun

The same repositioning also obscured the screws that hold the GPU brace’s mounting bracket.

— Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026
As the country reflected on one year since the murder, Slota posted about the urgency to brace for the possibility of more bloodshed — just before his arrest that day.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of brace

Noun

The primary goal of STS-112 was to deliver the 28,000-pound S1 truss to the station so it could be attached to the right side of the station's central S0 truss, the core of its 360-foot (110-meter) truss backbone.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Inside, aged timbers spanning the 23-foot-tall great room’s truss-work came from the craftspeople at Historic Woodworks in nearby Tetonia, Idaho.

— Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of truss

Noun

With their swollen, flaring buttresses and soaring heights of 80 feet or more, the trees are awe-inspiring when reflected in the dark water.

— Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 25 July 2026
Mahama stressed the need for African governments to cut waste and improve governance as a buttress against increasingly frequent international shocks because a return to the old system of global support is very unlikely.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 5 June 2026

Definition of buttress

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