Word: augments
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...initiated critical large-scale investments in the Faculty's facilities, in the sciences and beyond, that will augment Harvard's academic capacities for decades to come...
...substances. Some of them are antioxidants, which could explain part of its protective effect against disease. Some are psychoactive. "Our research," says Martin, "has focused on some of those other elements, such as chlorogenic acids, which keep adenosine in circulation in the brain longer than normal. That might augment coffee's ability to increase concentration without increasing irritability...
Rookie Shea Guthrie upped the lead to 2-0 when he beat Diagneau glove-side at 13:58, and an interference whistle on Hafner at 16:25 only seemed to augment the Crimson’s worries...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...debris then coalesced into what is now known as the moon. This “giant impact” theory is now widely accepted in the scientific community. Professor Avi Loeb, who worked alongside Cameron from 1993-1999 in the Department of Astronomy said his work has helped augment the growth of the field. “He directed the research of many other younger people,” Loeb said. “He basically groomed a whole generation of people who specialize in the evolution of stars. Now many of his students are leaders in the field...