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In recent years, Fed officials and other Wall Street forecasters have supplemented government reports with privately produced data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Instead of indulging Ilana’s control freak shtick, she might have supplemented the role with more of the maternal tenderness we catch only in stray glimpses.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

Other researchers have supplemented the diets of wild animals to answer tangential questions, Austad says, and “they never live shorter.”

From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2022

Some states have supplemented that money, while others have relaxed licensing requirements and allowed a bigger ratio of children to care providers.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Another child might have supplemented Dick's enquiries as to her uncle by questions of her own, but she did not.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)