shorings

noun

plural of shoring
as in shores

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  1. shores
  2. mounts
  3. supports
  4. reinforcements
  5. stands
  6. underpinnings
  7. stays
  8. spurs
Noun
  • Park in the right spot and the approach is transformed into a pleasant stroll around the shores of the lake that gives the aforementioned shopping centre its name.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The story goes that cheaper flights and package holidays from the nineteen-sixties onward sent most Brits to sunnier shores abroad.
    — George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of shores
Noun
  • More news The LAX people mover is 99% done, but uncertainty mounts near deadline.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • As the pressure mounts, their perfectionism is challenged by a fellow dancer.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of mounts
Noun
  • Reaching for chatbot interactions rather than human supports in moments of emotional distress or crisis.
    — Megan Kelly, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026
  • These are upstream levers—exactly the kind of environmental and social supports that reduce the chronic disease load over time.
    — Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of supports
Noun
  • Left-back could also do with reinforcements, with a thin pool of options available to cover for Luke Shaw, whose fitness record has been patchy during his 12-year career in Manchester.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The Red Sox had one of their biggest trade deadlines in franchise history last Monday, bringing aboard loads of big league reinforcements led by three-time All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of reinforcements
Noun
  • Meanwhile, fans crushed offerings of Jucy Lucy and cheesesteaks at the concession stands.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • With the right color scheme, plenty of cheaper containers can be easily converted into similar community video rental stands.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of stands
Noun
  • Insiders know that the technical underpinnings of watermarking are a gambit of trade-offs, and soon, the rest of society is going to witness this with their own eyes and ears.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • However, the political underpinnings of that panic are rarely identified and challenged.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of underpinnings
Noun
  • The property offers free stays for children 13 and under when parent and child stay in the same room.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Pillow positive — Slang for patients who are regularly admitted into hospitals for prolonged stays, but with no apparent physiological problem.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of stays
Noun
  • One exhibit brings together the then-future president’s buckskin jacket and pants, his rifle, Tiffany knife, his spurs, and his branding irons.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
  • But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Definition of spurs
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