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Defence Secretary John Healey met his counterpart Vasilis Palmas in Cyprus on Thursday to discuss how the UK was reinforcing air defences to support "our shared security," the PM's spokesman said.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

“The owner, of course, was reinforcing it the best he could,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

Right before he and I spoke, he was reinforcing the windows in his apartment with duct tape.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2022

By invoking this “responsibility,” he said, the post was reinforcing the idea that counselors should be an enforcement arm of college admissions offices.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2021

In the meantime, Marshal Browne was reinforcing the defenders of Lobositz with the whole of his right wing.

From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)